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More than a Dozen Nuclear Plants Near Hurricane Sandy’s Path Brace for Impact
Bloomberg reports:
“Because of the size of [Hurricane Sandy], we could see an impact to coastal and inland plants,” Neil Sheehan, a spokesman based in Philadelphia for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said by phone today. “We will station inspectors at the sites if we know they could be directly impacted.”
The NRC met earlier today to discuss the necessary precautions to take for the storm, Sheehan said. Plants must begin to shut if wind speeds exceed certain limits, he said.
As of 2 p.m. New York time, Sandy had winds of 75 miles (121 kilometers) per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. It was about 430 miles south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, moving north at 7 mph.
The current Hurricane Center track calls for the system to come ashore just south of Delaware Bay on Oct. 30.
Reuters provides a list:
The following lists the nuclear reactors and utilities in Sandy’s potential path.
While we don’t foresee any problems, the risk of nuclear accident in the U.S. is actually much greater than it was in Japan before Fukushima.
For example, fuel pools in the United States store an average of ten times more radioactive fuel than stored at Fukushima, and have virtually no safety features.
Let’s review the list and look at examples of problems experienced by the nuclear plants in Hurricane Sandy’s path:
- Brunswick experienced a reactor coolant system leak last year
- Surry has recently been plagued by problems with the coolant system, valves and damage from a tornado
- North Anna leaked tritium last year after an earthquake shook the plant and shifted around a gigantic radioactive storage cask
- Calvert Cliffs was knocked offline by the last hurricane
- Hope Creek has suffered security problems, has the same design as the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1, has “some of the same issues with above-ground storage of spent fuel rods as Fukushima” and “was designed to withstand certain major weather events but we need to look at the potential impacts of more extreme events, especially … sea level rise and flooding”
- Peach Bottom purportedly has a defective design and has been plagued by various problems
- Limerick has suffered electrical and other issues
- Three Mile Island suffered another leak in the cooling system last month
- Susquehanna has been hit with one problem after another
- Oyster Creek has been plagued with electrical and other problems
- Indian Point is widely recognized as one of the nation’s worst nuclear plants. If Indian Point melted down, it could close New York City for years, and cost half a trillion dollars or more
- Millstone’s vulnerability is shown by the fact that it was shut down due to warm seawater
- Pilgrim has numerous structural problems. And see this. Pilgrim’s spent fuel pools contain more radioactive cesium than released by Fukushima, Chernobyl and all nuclear bomb tests combined
- Vermont Yankee – which has around 10 times more spent fuel rods than any of the individual Fukushima reactors – leaked tritium
It’s not surprising that there have been problems at all of these nuclear plants. After all, the U.S. has 23 reactors which are virtually identical to Fukushima. The archaic uranium reactor designs developed more than 40 years ago are only good for making bombs.
Most American nuclear reactors are old. They are aging poorly, and are in very real danger of melting down. And yet the NRC is relaxing safety standards at the old plants. And see this.
Indeed, while many of the plants are already past the service life that the engineers built them for, the NRC is considering extending licenses another 80 years, which former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and now senior adviser with Friends of the Earth’s nuclear campaign David Freeman calls “committing suicide”.
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Please learn to read:
"we don’t foresee any problems"
"we don’t foresee any problems"
"we don’t foresee any problems"
"we don’t foresee any problems"
"we don’t foresee any problems"
repeating an unreferenced pronoun 5x does not make any clearer, who "we" are.
Fuck the naysayers GW. Keep up the good work.
Like... WE DON'T FORESEE A HOUSING BUBBLE?
That kind of foreseeing?
It's that hasty style of vacuous primary education laced with Ritalin, Lexapro and Lorazepam does it these days.
Nobody is accountable for their actions anymore.
He'll go to rehab and be claimed a cleansed productive member of society lickety-split.
The article says "we don't foresee any problems." So you can relax.
It's more of a reminder of the plethora of 'issues' going on with the aging US fleet. A gentle, gentle reminder.
they did't forsee any problems in Benghazi, and they did relax... so what could possibly go wrong?
Apparently problems were foeseen. And ignored. Consider all those security briefings Obama skipped to go fund-raising. The whole Benghazi fiasco deserves a thorough investigation with any dereliction of duty severely punished. As with the banksters, don't expect any politicians to be called on the carpet for this mess and the attendant deaths.
Because a thorough investigation of that other famous terror attack with respect to negligence of duty was so forthcoming?
Go read some "My Pet Goat" until you feel all better.
But if Bush would have politely excused himself and did his job the children in the classroom would have been upset. He was in a position similar to a fireman who gets called out when he is in the presence of children. The fireman stands pat and pretends the emergency doesn't exist in order not to alarm the little ones. There was nothing unusual about the president's heroic actions that day.
Are you forgetting a sarc tag? Seriously?
Sorry, in context w/your previous posts about holograms and other nonsense, I can't tell.
So you can't identify satire without a written disclaimer but somehow you have managed to unravel the mysteries of 9/11 and the worldwide cult of our Luciferian overlords?
How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria
This is correct GW.
The larger question is why did this administration allow him to be killed like this. They were looking at it in almost real time with security cameras and a drone.
The CIA told the ex-SEALS to stand down three times during the SEVEN HOUR assault when they requested that they go help defend Stevens. They finally disobeyed orders and tried anyways.
There are some really REALLY REALLY pissed off people within the government, military and intel right now. We don't leave our people to die like this and we certainly don't negotiate for sovereign air space to protect him/them...or we didn't use to.
This goes right to the corrupt, rotting top GW...this is a fucking ambassador, the highest ranking official of the American government in a foreign country, not some tourist caught with a bottle of liqour...there is no way O'Barry wasn't watching this in real time...and then went to bed knowing Stevens would die.
(cough) Ron Brown (cough)
Huh? What? No, I didn't say anything. Just clearing my throat.
nmewn, my gut is that Obummer and co. let it happen. I'm not sure why, though... any thoughts?
I hate to throw fuel on the fire of conspiracy, but since I also hate sourcing Wikipedia...
A week or so ago I was going to respond to some conspiracy post on the almighty nature of AFRICOM, and went to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFRICOM to pull up the date Ward got his worthless ass bounced. The table at the bottom of the page listed 3 commanders. I hadn't been aware that the next commander had already been named wasn't familiar with David Rodriguez so I pulled up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Rodriguez and noticed he was from the 101st (air assault badges aren't that common compared to jump wings). Anyway I had to take a phone call and got sidetracked...
But now that there are rumors about Ham being relieved, subsequent to the announcement of Rodriguez's rotation (which is perhaps a bit early, but these things are announced well ahead of time normally).
Anyway, in the change history for Rodriguez you can see where on Oct. 19 someone scrubbed the unsourced announcement that he had been named the next of AFRICOM. This is the way open source is supposed to function.
However, on the change history for the AFRICOM page, there is NOTHING about any changes removing a reference to David M Rodriguez being a commander of AFRICOM. This is not the way open source is supposed to function.
The government trolls have WAY TOO MUCH TIME AND MONEY if there screwing around with minor details on Wikipedia. Or perhaps I'm just going senile a bit early and somehow hit the 1:4,000,000 jackpot by landing on Rodriguez's Wikipedia page. Or perhaps there is some secret to the Wikipedia history pages that eludes me...
The great failing of open source is the guards themselves...Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
At the end of the day, everything revolves around trust. Wikipedia, Snopes (Barbara and David Mikkelson known to lean left), Fact Check (Annenburg, need I say more), Politi Fact (this one I know intimately) but you can run down the whole list of propaganda and duplicity.
Politi Fact comes from the St Pete Times, started by Nelson Poynter, who was a socialist (some would say a national socialist) of the highest order.
The reason I remember the incident so clearly was because of my first impression of the guard- I thought they were sending Major Powers from Supply to conquer the Banana Republics after they revoked William "Stitch" Ward's gold Amex card.
lol...point well taken, semper fi.
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Morning GW,
"nmewn, my gut is that Obummer and co. let it happen. I'm not sure why, though... any thoughts?"
In my opinion, because he's weak. He's never had to make really REALLY split second tough choices in his life...and this one was one of the easiest by far.
1) To the best of my knowledge we were the last western "ëmbassy" in Benghazi. All others having been pulled because of security concerns. That small detail goes right t the top of the decision making process. Hillary can't close embassies without O'Barry's assent to do it. Thats cut and dry.
2) Now, I don't know why the American government decided it was a good idea to "out source" the embassy/consuates security to Blue Mountain but it did. They, in turn, hired fighters from the February 17 Martyrs Brigade, an offshoot of Ansar al-Sharia. Ansar al-Sharia is who attacked the embassy and killed Stevens and three other Americans.
http://www.pottsmerc.com/article/20121016/OPINION03/121019620/diana-west-obama-admin-welcomed-wolves-into-the-sheepfold?mobredirect=true
The above are known knowns.
In a country/region/culture where alliances change like we change our underwear in the west, its the heigth of naivete to think the one who helped you yesterday (or who you helped yesterday) will stand beside you today.
Its true the CIA was using it (just like other nations use their embassies) for their own purposes, they had their annex around a mile away. We also know the CIA was obstensibly trying to "recover loaned weapons" given to fighters against Qaddafi. Whether they were in turn shipping that to rebels in Syria through Turkey is a question...but a side bar to the larger question of why we were the last western nation with a presence in Benghazi and its security downgraded as has come out in House testimony by State Department officials.
I think they've aleady said (the administration) that they are supporting the rebels in Syria so it really doesn't matter where the arms come from. Off a loading dock in the US or out of Libya. Stevens isn't the only one who would know of this...if the weapons were flowing from Libya to Syria. So logically (to me) theres no reason to "let him die".
To me it boils down to this...after they themselves had taken action that compromised the embassy/consulates security...they then could not make the tough decision to accept civilian casualties that would have been required to protect it and Stevens. The CIA guys (a mile away) disobeyed orders (finally) and tried to give aid but by then it was too late...it was a seven hour siege...there was plenty of time for jets to come from Italy. The top (the politicians) just couldn't bring themselves to believe what they were seeing. Instead of the first instinct to be to correct their past mistakes or even have a contingency plan in place for their stupidity...they dawdled..in disbelief and denial.
And it goes without saying...to the "truthers"...it happened on 911...2012.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/report_operators_were_denied_request_nrrlX4LgmkNPh1xjhzte7L
"I think they've aleady said (the administration) that they are supporting the rebels in Syria so it really doesn't matter where the arms come from. Off a loading dock in the US or out of Libya. Stevens isn't the only one who would know of this...if the weapons were flowing from Libya to Syria. So logically (to me) theres no reason to "let him die"."
https://www.google.com/search?q=administration+support+for+syrian+rebels
I see an embassy that was pried open. I see Russia stating the US is supplying weapons to the rebels. I see Russia and Iran helping Assad. I see China helping itself.
I don't see a single country in that region getting better in any way.
I see it much the same way.
Its one thing to overthrow (or help overthrow) Qaddafi or Assad. Its quite another to even hope to control what happens next. The ME has always been a place of shifting alliances and goals...a real spider web.
What the "western intellectuals" always forget is, yes, many of these internal gyrations start out as a small core of pro-freedom organizers. But they are always taken over and that small core pushed aside and made irrelevant by the more radical elements within those societies.
In many ways I feel sorry for them but the culture will have to change before they can ever have anything resembling "dëmocracy" as we know it in the west. They will have to except differences and be tolerant even though the majority will disagree with the minority and can impose its will at anytime.
It requires restraint, something we in the west even have a hard time with sometimes.
I don't see anything changing over there in the short run. Just a new dictator/monarch wearing a different color robe or suit.
Little barry had a cunning plan.
Let the MB "kidnap" the ambassador. Then, barry releases the Blind Sheik in exchange. He's a legend in his own mind. He probably did not see any video, as he was on a throwaway cell phone with Morsi, who was coordinating the attack from Cairo.
Unfortunately, the musloids got too carried away as they usually do, and went to blowing things up and having homo sex with the dead guys.
OR,
Little barry was afraid the F&F Gun Store in Benghazi was going to get busted selling illegal weapons, so he allowed the manager, er, ambassador, to get whacked. Afterwards, the musloids went to blowing things up and had homo sex with the dead guys.
My gut tells me that they "let" a lot of things happen, like maybe even this?
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090213154220896
Of course it happened right after she met with I'llbombya. Go figure.
Being an engineer, I can reassure you that a building constructed as it was, with the addition of heat and a weakening of the structure, can fall unto itself WITHOUT a controled collapse. Controled collapse occurs at the bottom of a building. These were struck at the top, and if you recall, the second building fell first from having extra weight a top it. Don't try to play the denile card here, cause you will get lost in your own imagination.
Absolute hogwash. Tell it to these engineers (if your reading skills are any better than your writing skills): http://www.ae911truth.org/
If your engineering skills are so good, then perhaps you can identify the problems with the math used on this page:
http://911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/guardian2/wtc/how-hot.htm
(not that there aren't a whole of questions about that day that still require answers, but I hate sloppy shit hiding behind academic credentials)
Its not confined to a lab experiment...for one.
You have a high altitude building subjected to wind (oxygen) not "äppreciated" at ground level. You can see it in any vid you pull up of the towers burning...its acting like a bellows in a blacksmiths furnace.
Cut him some slack...he's really good at poetry, so he says.
So why don't any of his posts rhyme?
Good thing you are an engineer and not an english teacher. /s
The hidden real truth about Benghazi
26 October 2012:
Most people know that we’ve been lied to about the attacks in Benghazi, but few realize the extent of those lies or the hidden secrets they cover. After all, the lie is different at every level. Thanks to a well placed source with extensive knowledge about the attack, the disturbing truth is slowly beginning to emerge and is lining up with information contained in my previous articles published here weeks ago. The truth reveals the most serious situation in the world today as it involves the interests and destinies of us all.
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/7015#more-7015
Bingo!
Option #2 Wins!
Tyrone's dad wants an answer and he and I are not going away...
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/26/father-of-slain-seal-tyrone-woods-accuses-white-house-of-murder-video/
Cindy Sheehan has not gone away although there are many who would like to see her do so and are working their machinations against her. I don't agree with all of her politics but I had the privilege of marching beside her in Pittsburgh on September 11, 2005 and I found her to be a great lady.
Her son was an adult, independent of her, his own man.
There is nothing else I can say about a grieving mother channeling her agony. Any of us who have lost someone goes through the same thing...I have.
My opinion is she has been badly abused by circumstance AND by those with agendas...I will say no more out of respect for him.
Thank you. Exactamundo ...
so the reguators announcement about stationing muppets there just in case is bullshit then
If bullshit was storms, they'd have a hurricane...
...or playing a HAARP.
You know civilization (as we know it) is coming to an end when moonbats promulgate absolute bullshit and otherwise reasonable people stroke their chins even considering it.
Moonbats? Otherwise reasonable people? I should post about what I know? Yada yada yada.
http://www.infowars.com/hurricane-sandy-divine-wind-for-obama/
Learn something about HAARP. Do it now.
Learn something about basic physics. Do it now.
Please elaborate while explaining how this response relates to the very credible info on the link.
Um, like HARRP isn't real or is never used? WTF?
Oh, right. You're a 911 truth denier. I keep forgetting.
I wonder if these little kids got warning to brace for what was coming their way?
The people in charge are satanic child molesters:
http://www.infowars.com/powerful-paedophile-ring-linked-to-parliament-ex...
So, you're saying "child molestors" control some sort of HARRP program that can steer fucking hurricanes into nuclear reactors at will...is that the gist of where your heads at?
Why haven't these "child molestors" steered a weather phenomenon into their enemies and destroyed them or made life so miserable they vacate the premises? Or are you saying it does earthquakes too? The "child molestors" got on eye on Japan or what?
While we're at it...what is the significance of finding iron & aluminum dust particles around demolished buildings? And you did say floors support upper floors didn't you instead of columns? Surely you have some answer by now...its been a week since I asked you...or maybe you conviently overlooked the question?
Again, I'll say, you're a fucking moonbat who should restrict his opinions to things he knows about intead of things he's read about.
Nmewn - you do know the Rothchilds have taken over The Weather Channel?
...maybe not trying to control the weather, but it's another media tool to spook stock markets, society and no doubt, politicians, about impending doom (Rothchild is a major mover and shaker behind the climate con, no family has peddled more lies or profited more from them)
slight correction: they actually bought 70% of Weather Central, which is more of a behind-the-scenes playa. WCentral just bought Weather Underground btw.
Weather Channel is owned by Blackstone, BainCap & NBC-Universal.
pick your poison.
Good thing I don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
That was awesome.