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Iraq Electric Grid Recovers from Attack

Publication Date: 17-SEP-04
Author: Thomas F. Armistead
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Three crude-oil pipelines erupted following explosions near the 676-MW Bayji Electricity Plant north of Baghdad Tuesday morning. Heat rising from the sea of blazing oil melted the high-voltage transmission line nearly 300 ft above, causing the 5,000-MW national grid to short-circuit. "The severed circuit caused a sudden power loss of 750 MW within one second," writes Mitchell Frazier, ...

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