Published: January 9th, 2013 at 12:37 am ET
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Title: Fire closes part of nuclear plant; no one injured
Source: Victoria Advocate
Author: Caty Hirst
Date: January 8, 2013 at 10:48 P.M.
[...] “The good news is no one was injured,” said South Texas Project spokesman Buddy Eller. [...]
The fire, in Unit 2 of STP Generating Station near Bay City, was declared an “unusual event,” the lowest level of emergency classification, according to a company news release. [...]
The cause of the fire is under investigation [...]
See also: Fire strikes South Texas Project nuclear power plant transformer -AP
Published: January 9th, 2013 at 12:37 am ET
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“unusual event,”
I guess with the increase in fires at nuclear plants
soon they wont even need to call them “unusual events”
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Very well put. I'm happy now too. yeeehaaaa!
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Look for claims of terrorism to deflect blame if this increasing frequency of problems persists… One would think. aging systems will have more problems as time go on… So, we will have more terrorist reports too..
Boogieman….
This site and others are over the nuke industry now… And should be like stink on poopoo – good job!!!
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#2 was running at half power at the time of the fire. That tends to discount it having to do with all the rain and lightning they're having.
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Hope sickputer & family are ok!!(?)
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I am not that far from the plant about 70 miles I will see what I can find out
Markww
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Do you have a Geiger counter? I would keep it at the ready and already have baseline readings.
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The fire was on 1-8-2013. It was a electrical Transformer. Same news story as Channel 13 here in Houston that was reported above.Lots of big storms here in Texas for 48 hours with flooding going on
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8946935
Markww
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Is anyone familiar with the large number of transformer fires starting in summer of 2010?…many apparently spontaneous, without adverse weather? I can remember ones in Ft. Worth, Vegas, on board a cruise ship in the Atlantic..and somewhere in the Midwest at a little league game…for example…that were videos on UTube. I didn't keep up with it after that, but ran across research regarding one day of "spontaneous" fires anywhere in the world. http://jumpingjackflashhypothesis.blogspot.com/2012/09/event-update-for-2012-09-07.html?m=1
And then there are the fires this summer…the munitions storage in Louisiana, the "gas" explosion in Springfield MA… The neighborhood that blew up in…was it Ohio?… Could the fire at the substation for the NP fire a few days ago in Austrailia be transformer related?
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This infrastructure is getting old. A lot of these pipelines, transformers, substations, and other hardware were designed to last 40-50 years. Much of it was installed in the 50's. That was back when Republicans were actually conservative and balanced budgets. That would be Eisenhowers administration, which was far left of the Obomer administration. Now we are all in a world of make believe. The only reason we haven't had a major nuclear disaster in this country is we used to do things right. Now our system is so corrupt that is eroding the hardware thru negligence. At this rate, we will have our own Chernobyl or worse. GE's new motto should be "You have no idea how lucky you are".
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What's really scary is the natural gas pipeline running all over the place that have developed micro-fractures. One went up 10 miles from my parents house in the mid-90s at a control station, you could feel the heat from the fireball in our bathroom window. The explosion vaporized the control shack. We know the guy who was work there at the time, he saw the switch board light up and the warning system kicked in, he got up to run for the door and got as far as opening it when the explosion went off. The blast threw him 300 feet away into a snow bank. The fact that he had his snow-suit on and being thrown into a snow bank is the only thing that saved his life. If it had happened in the summer he would have been a cinder.
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Erm, how much insurance money is sloshing around at some of these utilities whose infrastructure is worse than worthless…just a thought..
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Negligence, pure, unmitigated…like Entergy runs VT Yankee with a broken air condenser for 5 years running, refusing the 5 mil repair job in favor of exec bonuses…
It's also called theft; Take the Money and Run; leave the U.S. in Nuclear Winter…however, when the damage is done, there will be no hiding…
Everyone has neighbors, and 95% of them DON'T LIKE NUKES, so when the word gets out, look out ProNukers.
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