Title: Magnitude 2.4 – ILLINOIS
Source: USGS
Date: January 30, 2012 at 09:54:43 PM
Location: 42.340°N, 88.243°W
Title: Earthquake rattles northern suburbs, parts of Wis.
Source: ABC 7
Date: Jan 31, 2012 at 07:50 AM CT
If you live in the north or northwest suburbs and felt the ground move Monday night, you were not dreaming. A small earthquake centered near northwest suburban McHenry hit just before 10 p.m.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) National Earthquake Information Center, the 2.4-magnitude earthquake hit at 9:54 p.m. about two miles east of McHenry, Ill.
The earthquake was given an intensity rating of 3, which means it was weak. Still, more than 300 people reported on the USGS website that they felt it.
Experts say the earthquake was felt from southeast Wisconsin to northern Illinois to northwest Indiana. [...]
Read the report here
h/t enoughalready45
Distance from epicenter (red marker) to the shutdown Byron nuclear reactor (green marker):
Title: Byron nuclear reactor shut down after power loss
Source: ABC 7
Date: Jan 30, 2012
Low levels of radioactivity are being released from a nuclear reactor in Illinois tonight [...]
Some smoke was seen but no flames
Spokesman: I don’t know if we’ve had this situation before [...]
Read the report here
Published: January 31st, 2012 at 9:43 am ET
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wise words from the NRC!!
“A LITTLE BIT.. I FEEL A LITTLE BIT….SSS
MY NECKS IS JUST FEEL…
that clears that up then!!
LOL
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CHICAGO ? isnt that in america? the nrc guy suffers from communication difficulties?? even the guys from asia can speak good english! where gdid they find this guy? whats his real job?
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Hi arc…I watched this vid several times.
Paul Dempsey, exelon spokesman sounds drunk in first segment, pulls it together a little for second segment.
Viktoria Mitlyng, NRC spokesperson’s body language is frightening. She can’t look the interviewer in the eye. Her eyes wander left, up, over….anywhere but directly at the interviewer.
I smell 2 rats….again.
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do you think that is why she is replaced with the asian guy in the top video?? good point acout body language.. somewhat telling…
i was surprised they would employ what appears to be a coke head hippy person…
but then i thought.. cocaine and nuclear probaly go well together..
not saying she IS a coke head… disclaimer..
i like cokeheads sometimes..
hope that clears that up!
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Just watched the first vid. lol…I’ve been accused of being a cokehead hippy myself: cokehead, no; Hippie, yes!
What I see there is just another corporation making another mistake. Some staffer put the wrong name on the wrong person. Happens many times every day. ABC makes mistakes, Exelon makes mistakes. “To err is human”, and according to Supreme Court, Corporations are people! LOL…another reason not to trust them with nuke toys.
I laughed out loud when I checked this link shared by lam335 below.
http://www.bellydancechicago.net/
This chick is a belly dancer for corporate parties, office parties, etc. Check it out.
You can’t make this shit up! I think lam335 discovered a possible career path to her NRC job, just sayin!
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anne said HAARP was running a low frequicy last night !
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Some how I feel that if an earthquake cause’s a melt down they will figure it wasn’t there fault and they will be able to sleep at night, total madness ! Just Like the in Japan, so sorry tsunami !
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In wake of Japanese crisis, should U.S. expand nuclear power?
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By Robert Koenig, Beacon Washington correspondent
Posted 5:40 pm Wed., 3.16.11
“But Viktoria Mitlying, a spokeswoman for the six-state NRC regional office near Chicago, told the Beacon on Wednesday that Exelon has not yet applied for a separate license actually to build a new nuclear power plant there.
Critics of nuclear power have called for an NRC review of the four aging reactors in Illnois that have the same Mark I design as Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi reactor that may have undergone a partial meltdown. (Click to read Beacon’s story about the design of Illinois reactors.)”
“But an Exelon Nuclear spokeswoman, Krista Lopykinski, asserted that the reactors are completely safe — recertified by the NRC in recent years and designed to withstand an array of potential threats such as earthquakes and flooding. “Our plants are equipped with numerous redundant safety systems designed to protect them from earthquakes, flooding and other natural disasters,” she told the Beacon.”
http://www.stlbeacon.org/issues-politics/280/108943-should-us-expand-nuclear-power
she/he has had a sex change and that is a worker who hurt himself and is in shock… english not to clever either.. probaly low caste indian works on the rubbish tips (nuclear waste processing in india)
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hi viktoria.. so i dont get sued.. disclaimer.. if you are currently an asian man, asian woman, a bit of both or just a bit of rough.. i apologise
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just notyiced the picture of her on the the second video… she looks like a hippy in that one!! admin does viktoria have lots of doubles??
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Hi arclight,
I’m skeptical about the above statements regarding the NRC spokeswomen, but even if they were true, they would really be a red herring–an ad hominem remark that takes the focus off of the substantive issue of the plant’s releasing tritium.
I looked up this woman, and found an interesting article:
“Recalling Chernobyl: NRC’s Mitlyng looks back on covering USSR’s nuclear disaster”
http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/articles/2011/04/01/92014348/index.xml
She evidently grew up relatively close to Chernobyl and later interviewed some of the surviving liquidators. She expressed the opinion on the last page of the article that the American system is good since they tell their people right away when such incidents occur (well, not really, but that’s her impression). Be careful with this article though, because my computer accessed it once and when I tried to go back to it, I was locked out because I am not a subscriber.
By the way, I think this is the same person–looks like she has an interesting extracurricular life too:
http://www.bellydancechicago.net/
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By the way, that last comment wasn’t meant to imply any criticism–it just seemed like an unexpectedly colorful factoid about a possible NRC official–a group whom I generally think of as a pretty dreary and un-colorful lot (assuming it’s the same person).
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She was raised with Russian Gypsy dance in her native Russian and learned to spin around a room without falling before she knew how to read.
lol!
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He said something along the lines that it was just part of normal operating prosedure to release radio active steam onto the public. We they want permission to build tyhese things do they tell people this? Hell no. Criminals
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If the ENTIRE public truly understood how damaging, yet invisible nuclear energy is the plants wouldn’t be allowed in the first place. Of course, they have accumulated so much power the public literally doesn’t matter. Now it’s called collateral damage.
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Earthquake threat to nuclear reactors far higher than realized
‘Forty years ago, when some of these plants were started, the hazard — we had no idea,’ industry consultant says
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44369172/ns/us_news-environment/t/earthquake-threat-nuclear-reactors-far-higher-realized/#.TygP9oGt2q0
A Dangerous Mix: Earthquakes and Nuclear Power Plants
http://www.stop-hamaoka.com/english/takenouchi-1.html
The following article has a map with ages of nuclear power plants in the US:
Nuclear power and earthquake zones overlap in the U.S.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/blogs/nuclear-power-and-earthquake-zones-overlap-in-the-us
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Safety rules loosened for aging nuclear reactors
‘We can’t compromise on safety. I think the vulnerability is on these older plants,’ says retired safety designer
“…A vessel damaged by radiation becomes brittle and prone to cracking in certain accidents at pressurized water reactors, potentially releasing its radioactive contents into the environment….
“Even today, as many as 18 reactors are still running on old generators….Corroded piping. Nuclear operators have failed to stop an epidemic of leaks in pipes and other underground equipment in damp settings. The country’s nuclear sites have suffered more than 400 accidental radioactive leaks during their history, the activist Union of Concerned Scientists reported in September.
Plant operators have been drilling monitoring wells and patching hidden or buried piping and other equipment for several years to control an escalating outbreak.
Here, too, they have failed. Between 2000 and 2009, the annual number of leaks from underground piping shot up fivefold, according to an internal industry document obtained and analyzed by the AP….”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43455859/ns/us_news-environment/t/safety-rules-loosened-aging-nuclear-reactors/#.TygSzoGt2q0
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What’s the history of such quakes in the region? Is there an injection well or hydraulic fracturing operation in the area now or recently?
Or is this an exotic weapons attack? Did that, apparently one reactor of the pair, have its current/voltage just drop into space, or its system overaged and blown?
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January 31, 2012 at 11:44 am
The earthquake that probably hit the nuke: The longitude falls in the New Madrid Earthquake longitude zone-
2.4 2012/01/31 03:54:43 42.340 -88.243 5.1 3 km ( 2 mi) E of McHenry, IL (USGS).
New Madrid earthquake zone:
36.4°N 89.6°W
Magnitude 4 quakes ranging between 7.2 to 8.1 MM.
(Wikipedia).
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Well, in a way this is good. Now, we have an irrefutable rebuttal to the “1000 year” events. Most Americans don’t associate earthquakes with Chicago and especially when a reactor is malfunctioning.
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Chicago is way outside of the New Madrid seismic zone. the zone starts roughly around the Sikeston area and extends southwest from there.
if the quake that affected the Chicao area plant originated from the New Madrid zone, St. Louis would be a pile of rubble right now.
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New Madrid zone includes St. Louis and other valley areas.
A 3.0 quake wouldn’t do anything.
But an 8.0 or a 9.0 would probably cause multiple meltdowns among the 15 reactors defined as being in the New Madrid affected area.
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New seismic nuclear risk model proposed by NRC:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/31/us-utilities-nrc-earthquakes-idUSTRE80U1OS20120131
Not sure if this was posted yet.
“[...] Although the project sponsors said they did not undertake the new seismic study in response to the Fukushima or Virginia earthquakes in 2011, the NRC said its call for nuclear operators to re-evaluate seismic hazards was part of the agency’s implementation of lessons learned from the events at Fukushima. [...]“
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And the operators will probably file it in the round file, then play cards.
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ANOTHER earthquake near a troubled nuke power plant!?
Well that was clearly a fair and balanced report. Nothing is wrong. Nothing at all is wrong. Everything is fine. Hunky-dory, in fact. See – he says it and she says it and this guy says it and that guy says it and even people on the street say it. Yup.
P.S. And a lot of these guys are EXPERTS!
P.P.S. Would we lie to you?
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