Two US nuclear plants had quakes exceeding operating basis… while in process of getting licensed (PHOTO)

Published: January 8th, 2012 at 3:17 pm ET
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2 US nuclear plants experienced EQs exceeding OBE/SSE prior to licensing, Enformable, Jan. 8, 2012:

From: Bowman, Gregory
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 7:13 AM
To: Hipschman, Thomas; Marshall, Michael; Castleman, Patrick; Sosa, Belkys; Gilles, Nanette; Orders, William; Nieh, Ho; Franovich, Mike
Subject: Information on North Anna and Earthquakes

The staff was asked to identify which nuclear power plants had experienced earthquakes exceeding the OBE/SSE. The staff identified two (besides North Anna):

VC Summer – Experienced an earthquake in 1979 exceeding its OBE [Operating-Basis Earthquake]. This was prior to the plant being licensed.

Perry – Experienced an earthquake in 1986 exceeding its OBE and SSE [Safe Shutdown Earthquake]. This was prior to the plant being licensed.

I’m passing this on for information. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Greg

Published: January 8th, 2012 at 3:17 pm ET
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stock@hawaii.rr.com

January 8, 2012 at 4:31 pm

I think nuke is only supported by lies. It is a terrible technology, sexy from a science point of view, but dirty as can be.

At my Anti-nuke blog “Nuke is a 4 letter word” I have been debunking some of the on the fly lies of the nuke trolls. As such.

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Actually Germany is busy replacing nuclear with coal and gas, murdering thousands annually from the air pollution. They get almost no energy from wind or solar.

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That is a complete bald faced lie.
Germany gets 18 BILLLION kWH per year from renewable.

Please stop in and check them out, add your own ammunition.

We need to stop nuke using all means that are legal. Treat nuke as an insurgency against the human race, which it is.

http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/2012/01/conversations-of-nuke.html

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Jebus

January 8, 2012 at 4:48 pm

New Evidence from Fukushima Japan Proves Nuclear Reactors in the US Are Crap
Sunday, January 8th, 2012

New evidence from Japan proves nuclear reactors in the US (and around the world) have engineering defects causing grave danger to the public– American Nuclear Physicist Arnie Gundersen explains in simple terms (that even the NRC might possibly understand??) how all boiling water nuclear reactors were NOT built properly –knowing now what the engineers didn’t know when they were contructed — Arnie Gundersen’s talk here was given on September 20, 2011

http://www.japannuclearreactordisaster.com/new-evidence-from-fukushima-japan-proves-nuclear-reactors-in-the-us-are-crap.html

Mack

January 8, 2012 at 4:50 pm

There’s one big opportunity for actual citizens to shut down nuclear power plants.

That effort is in California, and only California registered voters can do it:

http://californianuclearinitiative.com/

http://sanonofresafety.org/california-nuclear-initiative/about-california-nuclear-initiative/

http://sanonofresafety.org/print-petition/

Even if you’re not a Californian, visit the site to look at the great Handouts they have:

Here’s a Handout about Routine Radiation Releases from nuclear power plants:

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/documents/rrus.pdf

Here’s a Handout of a radiation fact sheet:

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/documents/RADBASICSfinal.pdf

And many other Handouts you can print out:

http://sanonofresafety.org/documents-3/

Downwinders of California benefit if this initiative passes, too.

stock@hawaii.rr.com

January 8, 2012 at 6:08 pm Log in to Reply

Too bad only California can comment,
I am downwind of California, we all are.
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January 8, 2012 at 6:15 pm

For some places like ENENEWS, SKF, Big Arnie, they are providing information that you cannot get on main stream media. There is no charge for this hard work.
They can get advertising revenue from their websites, and this might be modest, but it helps, there are costs and time involved.

Consider visiting sponsors that catch your eye and have products you might use. The blogs get financial benefit even if you don’t purchase. Like a TV ad, you don’t have to buy, but the advertiser pays to get their message out. I sure wish that more HEPA filters, radiation detectors, and the like started advertising on these sites, we can really use that stuff.