Published: June 30th, 2011 at 7:25 pm ET
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Worker Burned At Nuclear Plant, KETV, June 30, 2011 at 6:15 pm EDT:
A worker at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station was burned while refilling a gas tank on a water pump Thursday.
Omaha Public Power District officials said a pump used to remove water seepage caught fire when the employee was refilling its gas tank. [...]
Emergency crews took him outside the plant, where a medical helicopter picked him up and took him to a burn center in Lincoln. [...]
Published: June 30th, 2011 at 7:25 pm ET
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Yes they are supposed to be shut off before refueling, but the water is coming in to fast for HOMER to shut it down !
They need more pumps to alternate !
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Its a sign of real desperation when safety goes out the window like that. Probably also a sign of how tired out the workers are that this botch up happened. What a mess.
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Oh I got some more BAD news Folks !
Jellyfish Shut Down Nuclear Power Plant
by Sharon S.
June 30, 2011
An invasion of jellyfish managed to stop operations at a nuclear power plant in eastern Scotland after high volumes of the creatures flooded water filters and clogged the cooling system.
EDF Energy’s Torness nuclear power station near Dunbar, East Lothian uses seawater to cool its reactors and on June 28 a large influx of jellyfish were “sucked in” as the part of the process and blocked the water screens, reported Sky News.
Operators manually shut down the two reactors at the facility as a precautionary measure.
A spokesperson for EDF Energy told Sky News,…
http://www.care2.com/causes/jellyfish-shut-down-nuclear-power-plant.html
Jellyfish Influx Shuts Down Nuclear Reactors
Thursday June 30, 2011
James Matthews, Scotland correspondent
Reactors at the Torness nuclear power station have been shut down by jellyfish.
Workers at the plant are now clearing the jellyfish from the cooling filters before the reactors are restarted.
It is unclear why there has been a sudden surge in the numbers of jellyfish in the sea off Scotland’s east coast, but it is thought a rise in North Sea temperatures could be a factor.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201009116021568
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Pardon my snark here please.
But this has got to be “Intelligent Design.”
Even though I am a dyed in the wool Darwinian, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin evolutionist, I can’t wrap my mind around the idea that random happenstance could possibly come up with such an array of creative displays to show that nukes are counter-indicated.
Let’s hear it for heroic self-sacrifice of the jellyfish. Thank you, jf.
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This is most likely a portable sump pump, I hope the man will be OK, at least his feet will get dry !
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I’m a little surprised we got to hear about it.
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Seen on Craigslist under FREE:
Nuclear Reactor, slightly used
———-———-———-———-—–
As-is, needs maintenance, no disaster plan
Coupon for 20 year license renewal available, rubber stamp required
Best Offer, will trade for airline ticket out of country
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@Woopie OMG! I have never seen this side of you before! And its all good! You have to let it go sometimes to keep your sanity in check. I look forward to seeing more of this side of you!! +10!
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Camera man is playing around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIa6yble2gk&feature=player_embedded
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He was anyway.
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That worker will be in my prayers…I can’t imagine the kind of pain he must be in.
oh yeah, let’s hear it for those jellyfish!
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Even the lowly Jellyfish knows what he needs to do to allow his species to survive…
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Should be inspiration.
If a Jellyfish can shut down a nuclear plant, just think what a few million humans can do…
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+1
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Those spineless little bastards are making us look bad!
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The jellyfish or TPTB?
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LOL but not LOL
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Where’s Spongebob and Patrick when you need them?
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I hate to say I told you so but refilling a running water pump with gasoline in an enclosed area is asking for it! as I posted yesterday, They need to be spaced 20+ feet away from each other and shut down for at least 3-4 minutes before refueling. Thus making a rotation possible without getting in to the negative pumping capasity from a 6 minute shut down of one pump out of three Etc..I expect the mans burns are serious, Prayers and god speed to him.
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But that’s in the instruction manuals, they are sometimes read after all that can go wrong does go wrong ! Sometimes !
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I have not heard frogs around here for a month. Normally they move into my house in the summer (western tree frogs).
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Where are you ? = your 20 ?
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THE Ad above ! Shows how to aim at fire. LOL
Use a fire extinguisher
Learn to assess a fire situation
and safely extinguish the fire.
youtube.com/FireEquipManufAssoc
Much harder to hit a moving taget, man on fire !
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July 1
Fire injury: A worker refilling the gas tank of a portable pump at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station was burned Thursday after the tank caught fire. He was taken by medical helicopter to a Lincoln hospital for treatment of arm and facial burns. The employee was injured as he used an extinguisher to put out the fire, said Jeff Hanson, a spokesman for the Omaha Public Power District. The portable pump was outside the security building — surrounded by sandbags to keep floodwaters away — but the building is not part of the power facility. The pumps are used to remove water that seeps under the barrier. Hanson said the Fort Calhoun plant was not endangered in the incident. The worker was not identified, so that relatives could be notified.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20110701/NEWS01/707019890/0#the-latest-on-flooding-july-1
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