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Nation's Oldest Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey's Oyster Creek, Declares Alert Following Water Surge
As a reminder, the biggest catastrophe that resulted from last year's Tohoku earthquake in Japan was not the earthquake itself, nor the infrastructure destruction from the susbequent tsunami, but the impact of the soaring water wall on the nuclear power plants in the coastline, namely Fukushima, and its aftermath, by now known all too well to all. So tonight too, all along the east coast, the biggest threat is not the wind, nor the rain, but the impact of the storm surge on the tens of nuclear power plants located in the vicinity of the rapidly rising tide. Such as Oyster Creek in New Jersey which just went on alert due to the surging water level.
The nation's oldest nuclear power plant is on alert after waters from a colossal storm reached high levels.
Oyster Creek in Lacey Township, N.J., was already offline for regular maintenance before Sandy, a superstorm downgraded Monday night from a hurricane, slammed the East Coast.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says an "unusual event" was declared around 7 p.m. when water reached a high level. The situation was upgraded less than two hours later to an "alert," the second-lowest in a four-tiered warning system.
Federal officials say all nuclear plants are still in safe condition. They say water levels near Oyster Creek, which is along the Atlantic Ocean, will likely recede within a few hours.
Oyster Creek went online in 1969 and provides 9 percent of New Jersey's electricity.
And elsewhere, we just saw the following also very disturbing headline from US Emergency Services:
PA | HYNDMAN |**EVACUATION**| - | VOLUNTARY EVAC DUE TO NUCLEAR WARNING IN BEDFORD COUNTY. UEA325 | UEA451 |
We will keep track of any related news and report as soon as we see it.
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Fukushima part two: The New Jersey addition.
edition?
Addition...it's adding to the radioactive toxins destroying the planet...or something.
FUBAR on the Jersey Shore. Fuck you Snookie.
Paul Krugman is absolutely estatic with tonight's events, and is hoping for even more stimulative events.
Radioactive fallout contains vitamins and iron for a balanced diet
S&P futures plunging....
http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=ES&p=m5
It's going to be fucking carnage when the NYSE opens after the election!
If the systems beneath the NY exchange are damaged then the distance the algos have to run to do their manipulative operations could be changed beyond their intended purposes.
If everything is brough back online as before Sandy then probably not much of a problem.
Interesting times.
The small point about the tohoku earthquake killing 20,000+ people which wasn't related to the power plant seems to be being forgotten here.
In my opinion that could arguably be a bigger catastrophe than Fukushima
Time will tell I guess
I'm sure thats mostly true in japan, down wind people tend to find other concerns more pressing.
Are you serious?!
You honestly think that the deaths of 20k people is worse than at least four meltdowns that will continue to irradiate the entire planet for tens of thousands of years?!
Time will tell indeed.
Yeah. I live there. Both impacts affect me personally
Ah that would explain your short-sighted viewpoint.
The futures are not plunging Dude. I just looked. The algos are on their job in the sewers of of NYC protecting all of us.
Go Kevin Go!
Hang in there Kev!
When the Eye approaches, would someone please send Kevin a whore and a pizza?
Hard to say because this might take money from his pet plan to spend money on an imaginary space alien attack.
Ladies and gentlemen, this could be the election cancellation even no one has been waiting for. Pray, prepare....
crazy days.... sending good wishes to everyone, known and otherwise.
ori
Rumor has it that he was super glued to the top of Citicorp Center for the storm.
New Neo-Keynesian Storm Gazing
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Aroundhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA
And I looked and behold, a BLACK SWAN
And his name that sat on him was SANDY
And Hell followed with him.
It is just an alert.
Next step up from Alert is Site Area Emergency. Final level is General Emergency.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2012/12-042.i.pdf
Per NRC, an Alert means that "events are in process or have occurred which involve an actual or potential substantial degradation in the level of safety of the plant. Any releases of radioactive material from the plant are expected to be limited to a small fraction of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) protective action guides (PAGs)"
That's pretty vague.
A pic of The Bernank glowing green would be pretty much be in vogue right about now.
Supposed to be.
Sound ominous, says nothing, empowers the officialdom to mutter and mumble sanctimonious horseshit to impress the taxpaying serfs
No, final level would be a dark-colored swan-like creature.
This October surprise really took some imagination! Bravo!
The Real Nuclear Power Plants of New Jersey.
Fukushima was destroyed by the earthquake - which preceded the tsunami. Let's get our facts right!
http://enenews.com/nhk-civilization-met-disaster-because-fukushima-crisi...
Enenews is a disinformation site, been there for the better part of 2011 and finally realized is just a psy-ops meant to make people think that something is indeed happening there (and had happened) and just quit it. Just check how they keep recycling news and continually changing the intensity of the "alarm" but in the end nothing happens. You might want to have a critical look at the whole chain of events and factor in that AFAIK nobody (I’ll go as far as to consider 50 deaths to be very underwhelming) died (including from the famous Fukushima 50) due to radiation sickness on-site (although there are sometimes stories about people rushed to emergency rooms but nobody ever dies) , in the exclusion zone or in the nearby villages/cities (19 months after 4 core meltdowns and one or two SFPs burnt). Something just doesn’t add up about Fukushima – slight understatement.
you would hardly notice, with all the mutants already populating the Jersey shore
oh oh
Edition.
Going to be a long night..
i hope nothing is serious
http://www.freefdawatchlist.com
Keep an eye on Bedford county PA:
Babcock & Wilcox Co. says a test facility for its new class of mini nuclear reactors is fully operational.
The Integrated System Test facility in Bedford County will test the mPower modular reactor's design and performance. Energy generated by a nuclear core will be simulated by heating the reactor electrically.
The mPower reactors will generate 125 megawatts.
Construction of the test facility began in March 2010. It was commissioned in February and underwent a startup test and power ascension program.
The facility also will test the thermal hydraulic performance of the company's once through steam generator.
http://www.roanoke.com/business/wb/311744
Shit just got real.
Quote from an article from yesterday
"The biggest problem, as I see it right now, is the Oyster Creek plant, which is on Barnegat Bay in New Jersey," says former nuclear executive Arnie Gundersen, noting it lies in the projected eye of the storm. "Oyster Creek is the same design, but even older than Fukushima Daiichi unit 1. It’s in a refueling outage. That means that all the nuclear fuel is not in the nuclear reactor, but it’s over in the spent fuel pool. And in that condition, there’s no backup power for the spent fuel pools. So, if Oyster Creek were to lose its offsite power — and, frankly, that’s really likely — there would be no way cool that nuclear fuel that’s in the fuel pool until they get the power reestablished. ... The most important lesson we can take out of the Fukushima Daiichi and climate change, and especially with Hurricane Sandy, is that we can’t expect to cool these fueling pools."
http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2012/10/29/nuclear_plants_from_virginia_...
Sen. Harry Reid needs to be brought up on criminal charges if any of that shit gets out.
O.K., no New Jersey oysters for me for a while.
The clams are risky, too.
Risqué (since the grammar Nazi's haven't been drowned by the storm...when in Rome!)
Sorry, got caught up in the double entendres and forgot to ask
Who in their right mind eats anything from New Jersey?!??
And that's not a double entendre?
I hear the crabs that you get from New Jersey are the worst.
Almost as bad as blue waffles
Might want to avoid all seafood from New Jersey; especially the bearded clams.
Damn, and I so love me a bearded clam!
Be sure it's not a breaded clam. That will definitely give indigestion. And the Hiv
70's porn bush devotee, damn the torpedoes.
+1 to you good sir. Way to own it (and with conviction too)!
Yeah,i like those bushs that look like a yield sign.
I'm givin' it all she's got, keeptain... If I push 'er any harder, she's gonna blow!!
Grammar Girl explains effect and affect:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/affect-versus-effect.aspx
Shut the Fuck up.
Tghhs jks jkjkk.
Tits or GTFO.
And all those fuel rods that have been used since the OPENING of the plant STILL reside there, instead of being taken to Yucca Mountian. $12 billion dollars and who shut it down> GW BUsh??? NOOOO!!!
http://rampac.energy.gov/PCN/P24.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/05/10/10greenwire-gao-death-of-yucca-m...
Why not blame Truman? He always enjoyed stopping a buck.
Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) is a decommissioned research reactor and U.S. National Historic Landmark located in the desert about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Arco, Idaho. At 1:50 pm on December 20, 1951 it became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it produced sufficient electricity to illuminate four 200-watt light bulbs.[3][4] I
Did you see that piece of shit facade fall off the apartment building?
Bet it wasn't brick and mortar built before 1965; probably some particle board stucco shit of the "new age".
Peach Bottom nuclear station is older - commissioned in 1966. AP doesn't know diddly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach_Bottom_Nuclear_Generating_Station
Peach Bottom is right above the Conowingo hydro dam on the lower Susquehanna River - about 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia, and 60 from the Oyster Creek plant. Before Hurricane Agnes in 1972, the Conowingo operators didn't heed the forecast and retained a lot of water behind the dam. Water behind a dam is cash for a hydro plant. When the SHTF, the spillage might have been ten feet over the top of the dam. Had they drained the basin behind the dam, the town of Port Deposit might have been spared major flood damage as the basin could have been used to retain the surge from upstream. I have been watching the flows this time around. It seems to be under control. Clearly there are higher highs, and higher lows in terms of flow rates in the daily generation cycle:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/md/nwis/uv/?site_no=01578310
Love me some peach bottom. That and bearded clam. Perfect east coast meal.
Wash it down with some Boone's Farm and you're a regular on the next Jersey Shore
Radioactive Snookie.
"the biggest catastrophe that resulted from last year's Tohoku earthquake in Japan was not the earthquake itself, nor the infrastructure destruction from the susbequent tsunami, but the impact of the soaring water wall on the nuclear power plants in the coastline, namely Fukushima,"
Bullshit. What about the 25,000 who drowned?
Double bullshit. The earthquake destroyed the cooling system prior to the tsunami hitting the plant.
However, if the blame is placed on the tsunami instead of the quake, we sheeple will conclude that our nuke plants are safe and such things can't happen here because tsunamis are rare.
East Coast chicks are a sweaty mess, I don't think I have ever even bothered bagging one on my many trips to Europe.
you didn't bag an East Coast chick on your trips to Europe?
...your geography was probably the main problem
he had a "layover"
Sorry germans,your gold is here,but now is radioactive and nobody cant touch it next 10 000 years.FED.
isn't it actually radioactive tungsten?
Just checked. Appears gold's longest half-life isotope is 6 months [Au 195]. Be patient.
Goldfinger had it pegged at 57 years. Scientific license from the British film industry?!
Ok, so Fukushima didn't end the world but rather, after, the SPX went bazooka to exceed 2012 highs! Now, this NJ powerplant shity fest will propell the SPX to all time highs!
BULLISH!
Paging Prechter! Call that 3 of 3 of 3 of 3 of 3 of 3 of 3 of 3 of 3 JAFFO!
http://www.laka.org/chernobyl/2006.html
Chernobyl did not end the world either. But it did end the lives of many unborn children, distorted and malformed many more children in utero and had documented devastating impact on the soil, air and water which rendered the local wild life and that down wind destined to develop cancer.
With today's media, in the hands of the corporate slave owners who just can't seem to make enough money, we'll never know what is actually going on. It's a dog and pony show for ratings and votes and products.
Fukushima hasn't ended yet, Bazooka. If you are so confident it has, take your loved ones and move on over to Honshu, Japan, and you can confirm to us it's safe. (unfuckinglikely that will happen, eh? I know, I know....you'd run for your life before you'd expose yourself to what Fukushima has emitted thus far.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-may-score-a-direc...
Great Reporting ZH
...Thanks.
As above.
Not even a one line mention of nuclear power plants anywhere in the Australian Mainstream Media so far (a few internet pages have started to catch up but still zilch on the tv) =S
just had a butchers around the British newspapers and despite having all night to catch up haven't a new pic not seen on ZH last night
...exception being photos of the new submarine city of Atlantis, USA (previously known as Atlantic City) which resides 4 foot underwater
nuclear default swaps
nucular default swaps.
Sincerely,
Dubya
Indian Point??? How high is the surge upriver?
You know if those plants actually did explode, leak whatever and ruin the country I can't really say the human race doesn't deserve it for being so stupid as to build such fucking idiotic things in the first place. Of course the majority of us didn't have a say so in any of it and once again we'll have to bend over and take one for the rich assholes that have this kind of bullshit and other ideas in the making all on an assembly line, get rid of one and here comes another before you know what hits you.
I'm going to bed, fuck this bullshit.
Lighten up, Francis.
It's only life.
Don't give up rs, just make sure you've got extra ammo and some rope.
Trees will help.
The nuclear power industry was developed by the US government with taxpayer dollars. Supposedly we did have a say but in reality we didn't. The problem is not rich people. The problem, as usual, is government.
Black Body Swan.
Copper theives have stealed the statue of liberty.
Quote taken from an article from yesterday.
"The biggest problem, as I see it right now, is the Oyster Creek plant, which is on Barnegat Bay in New Jersey," says former nuclear executive Arnie Gundersen, noting it lies in the projected eye of the storm. "Oyster Creek is the same design, but even older than Fukushima Daiichi unit 1. It’s in a refueling outage. That means that all the nuclear fuel is not in the nuclear reactor, but it’s over in the spent fuel pool. And in that condition, there’s no backup power for the spent fuel pools. So, if Oyster Creek were to lose its offsite power — and, frankly, that’s really likely — there would be no way cool that nuclear fuel that’s in the fuel pool until they get the power reestablished. ... The most important lesson we can take out of the Fukushima Daiichi and climate change, and especially with Hurricane Sandy, is that we can’t expect to cool these fueling pools."
http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2012/10/29/nuclear_plants_from_virginia_...
Errrrr you mean Oyster Creek losing it's offsite power like this:
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2012/20121030en.html#en48452
It's OK. They have fire hoses. And it'll take an entire day to reach the boiling point.
No, seriously, that's supposed to make you feel better.
Nuclear power and bad habits:
If smoking is a bad habit, russian roulete is a worse habit.
If coal is a bad habit, nuclear power is a worse habit.
no nukes in Bedford.. was shutdown decades ago... that is a twit tweet
"It's only a tiny leak," the Tokyo Mayor told his people ......
No worries. Its been leakin for years. How else you explain the snook and crew?
Man...these kids running this show need a time out. Jeez.
Silver Fookerz.
The Jap thingy killed far more people indirectly - by pushing up the price for heavy fuel oil & LNG.
Will the east coast storm thingy do the same ?
Latest reports from US nuke facilities.
Click http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2012/20121030en.html
to read about Salem, Nine Mile Point and Oyster Creek nuke facility Event Notification reports from yesterday.....
In short, all diesels started correctly when power was lost.
#phew
All this concern about Nuclear Plants and Hurricane Sandy - nobody concered about all the leaves in my swimming pool.