Published: September 1st, 2011 at 11:38 am ET
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Officials: Virginia quake shifted nuclear plant’s storage casks, CNN by Brian Todd, September 1, 2011 at 10:20 am EDT:
[Rich Zuercher, spokesman for Dominion Virginia Power] said the casks’ movement was known shortly after the [August 23] quake, which had an epicenter less than 20 miles from the plant, but the news was not released to the public. [...]
It is the first time such casks have been shifted by an earthquake in U.S. history, said Roger Hannah, spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as it’s the first time a quake of this magnitude was felt at a nuclear plant in the country. [...]
Published: September 1st, 2011 at 11:38 am ET
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hasn’t enenews already posted this article? maybe I read it somewhere else, the druegereport-esc headlines bother me sometimes.
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Distract, distract, distract. What about the reactor piping? A report on that would be more enlightening.
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. . . and delay, delay, delay . . . they should have told the surrounding community about this immediately, especially with such a strong hurricane coming straight toward them. When will they understand that people have a right to know these things. The reason people don’t trust nuclear power is because the plant operators prove time and time again that they cannot be trusted by withholding and delaying the release of information–and the more severe the danger, the more fiercely they withhold and delay and deny–often until it is too late for surrounding communities, as in Middletown, PA, Pripyat, Ukraine, and Fukushima, Japan).
Let people make their own judgments about what risks are “acceptable” for them. Who do the engineers think they are to alway be deciding this for us?
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http://mfile.akamai.com/127380/live/reflector:51361.asx?bkup=52045&prop=a
Reactor 4 looks hissy on the live cam.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/f1-np/camera/index-e.html
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I think there is something very wrong at the site today…
Keep an eye on the live camera…
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I am seeing white sparks launch up?
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