EaRThQuAKe epicenter next to NUKE PLANT!

[Bennyboy]

Where the quake hit http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/37.39.-79.-77.php

Where that is: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lake+Anna,+VA&hl=en&sll=38.873561,-77.38986&sspn=0.103307,0.154324&vpsrc=0&z=11

Ranked 7th most vulnerable to earthquake http://www.nbc29.com/story/14265528/lake-anna-reactor-ranked-7th-most-at-risk-for-earthquake-damage

"According to Jim Norvelle with Dominion Power, North Anna was designed to withstand a magnitude 5.9 – 6.1 earthquake."

I got a bad feeling here.

[elleng]

1. Heard that North Anna did its 'close down' thing, as intended.

[AndyTiedye]

13. So Did Fukushima

In the hours after the 3/11 quake everybody was assured that Fukushima had safely shut down.
Later we learned that the quake had severely damaged it even before they ran out of power,
and it was already melting down.

[davepc]

19. Well there was that whole 60' wall of water thing in Japan

Thats what actually caused most of the problems.

[itsrobert]

2. A 6.1?

Are they nuts?

[burrowowl]

3. K&R

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. ducking and covering

:eyes:

[CleanGreenFuture]

5. But it's ok to build nuke plants in seismic zones.

Just ask any Nukey. They'll tell you.

[TheWraith]

6. Not this shit again.

Funny how people go into panic mode when there's something, anything happening near a nuclear plant, but like those two that were in the middle of the mid-west flood zones, they conveniently forget as soon as the worries are proved groundless.

[Bennyboy]

8. Is Fukushima "This shit" too?

Or have you forgotten about the ongoing and ever worsening problem there? have you forgotten how the news seemingly forgot about that "Shit"????

[CleanGreenFuture]

9. Who the fuck forgot about it? Just because it proved to be ok doesn't

in any way take away the POTENTIAL danger! What about the next time? Or the time after that, when the goddamned thing, and every living thing nearby to it, goes NUCLEAR?

Jesus Christ!

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Actually Fuku is NOT ok

we are having a continuing (not covered in the US) disaster

[stockholmer]

11. Not this shit again --> Funny how people go into panic mode

:wtf: is your malfunction, Mr/Ms Wraith of Normalcy Bias Junction, USA?

cocksure till a brick drops on your own brain stem, eh?

keep on crackin' cynicism

one day your number will come up (caesium 137, perhaps)

[AndyTiedye]

17. Wraiths (and other Undead) Thrive on Radiation

Radiation may be deadly to living creatures, but the undead eat it for lunch.

[myrna minx]

7. Wow. Scary, K&R. n/t

[FBaggins]

10. Lake Anna isn't known for her tsunami. Chill. nt

[NNN0LHI]

15. The meltdown at Fukushima began before the tsunami hit the plant

[FBaggins]

18. There's no evidence of that at all. Sorry.

Internet conspiracy theories do not become proof just by repetition.

[NNN0LHI]

23. This report conflicts with your assertions

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/MH12Dh01.html

Aug 12, 2011

What happened at Fukushima?

<snip>Kikuchi Yoichi, a former GE engineer who helped build the Fukushima nuclear power plant says unequivocally that, "the earthquake caused the meltdown not the tsunami.'' In his recent book Why I'm Against the Nuclear Plants I Helped Build, he explains that poorly maintained water pipes and circulation system failure were the cause of the triple meltdown:

''At Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, at first the plan was to use the water coffin approach. In other words, to fill the containment vessels with water and cool down the pressure vessel and ensure a safe and stable state. However, once (TEPCO) understood that the containment vessels had been damaged, they gave up this plan. Because water was probably leaking all over the place from the pipes, from the start this was an unreasonable scenario.''

Tanaka Mitsuhiko, a former nuclear power plant designer and science writer asserts that at least the Number One reactor melted down as a result of the earthquake damage. He describes it as a loss of coolant accident (LOCA). "The data that TEPCO has made public shows a huge loss of coolant within the first few hours of the earthquake. It can't be accounted for by the loss of electrical power. There was already so much damage to the cooling system that a meltdown was inevitable long before the tsunami arrived."

He says the released data shows that at 2:52 pm on March 11, before the tsunami had arrived, the emergency circulation equipment of both the A and B systems automatically started up. "This only happens when there is a loss of coolant." Between 3:04 pm and 3:11 pm the water sprayer inside the containment vessel was turned on. Tanaka says that it is an emergency measure only done when other cooling systems have failed.

By the time the tsunami arrived and knocked out all the electrical systems, circa 3:37 pm, the plant was already on its way to melting down.

[FBaggins]

24. So does your earlier post. That doesn't make it so.

Those (unsupported) claims add up to nothing more than "there was damage before the tsunami hit". Reactors have been damaged many times in the past without melting down. It's nonsense to claim that because emergency cooling equipment was in use, that meant that the core would melt down even if power had not been lost.

There have also been a number of reports of workers stopping the cooling system in error multiple times prior to the tsunami hitting. The mere fact that something was off does not mean that an earthquake knocked it out and it would have been useless even without the tsunami.

[hedgehog]

12. I think that may be a poorly worded statement; did the spokesman

mean "the plant is designed to withstand up to a 5.9", or did he mean "the plant is designed to withstand a 7.0, so a 5.9 should be no problem"?

:shrug:

[geomon666]

14. OMG WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!

:eyes:

[Supply Side Jesus]

25. +1

:nuke:

[Drew Richards]

16. And many of you here on DU shot me down and put my prediction thread in the crazy file...ha!

Ok so my entire prediction list is exactly one year and 4 days later from all the occurences in the last 6 months...I thought most of this would happen next year...

Spooky stuff.

http://drewrichards2000.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/08/5793044-is-the-end-coming-but-they-dont-want-to-tell-us

[Hubert Flottz]

20. I could care less here in West Virginia...

I still have plenty of Duct Tape and cling wrap.

[dtexdem]

21. Oh why worry? Who ever heard of an earthquake or tsunami damaging a nuke plant?

;-)