This procedure is suitable for all urgent conditions including fire, detonation, chemical overflow, flammable gas divulgence, serious power failure and other natural disaster accidents and so on.
On the now-defunct Russian space station Mir, a power failure once forced cosmonauts to defecate directly into emergency plastic bags, until a repair could be made.
In Los Angeles, fire officials reported localized power failures and downed wires in several city neighborhoods, but said that no major damage to infrastructure had been identified.
This time the cooling ponds for spent but still highly radioactive fuel rods were affected by a power failure and it took engineers some 30 hours to fix them.