Posted on 03/01/2006 8:44:05 PM PST by Palladin
An emergency alert has been raised at the Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant in Salem Township in Luzerne County, but officials said the public is not in danger. According to PPL officials at the plant, there was a release of halon in one of the non-nuclear structures at the plant. Halon is a fire suppressant. Officials at the plant said no flames were present, but there was a burnt smell detected.
The Luzerne County Emergency Agency also responded to the incident, and local E.M.A officials are on alert. Officials said there have been no evacuations. For any questions, residents of Luzerne County can call the rumor hotline at 1-800-821-3716. In Columbia County, residents can call the rumor hotline at 570-389-5738.
Yup. Electrical. Doesn't sound like the reactor scrammed. And doesn't sound like a containment issue or a pump failure.
Some kinda problem, but the system worked as designed.
Halon disrupts the chemical reaction of rapid oxidation (fire) and doesn't depend on oxygen displacement.
About 10 miles north of me.
Berwick PA
Luzerne County
Having lived in the release plume zone of a gaseous diffusion plant with rail cars of HF in and out all the time, stuff like this is about as scary as burned toast in the kitchen.
Funny to see all the twisted panties posting!
Thanks. As I scrolled further, I saw the county map posted.
Your welcome, I don't think anything is going on, I am home today because of the snow and schools are closed. All is quite :)
Read post 5 of the link you provided. I saw video of exactly that.
A guy standing within a ring of fire and the Halon put it out. He stood there smiling away.
Halon was designed to interrupt the combustion process while still allowing the individuals to breath.
In fact, we were told NOT to evacuate should the Halon suppression system discharge. The opening of doors would negate the Halon working.
Indeed it was the envirowhacks who got Halon banned. Too bad, was one of the very best fire suppression systems ever invented. (Especially good for computer systems and tape libraries). Halon would not chemically damage or thermal shock complex machinery/computers.
People are scared of radiation, they can't see it or taste it. And most don't understand it.
Thank the eco-terrorist type movements that would have us all living in huts near streams and cooking crawdads on mossy rocks.
Fly across the country a couple times and you'll get radiation exposure far in excess of a couple x-rays. And if it was so bad, pilots would be dropping like flies, or at least having their privates shrivel up and fall off.
America's record on nuclear has really been pretty good. I wish they would open it back up again. But the nimbys will whine till the cows come home.
Yuppers! :-)
No. Close to Berwick.
Pennsylvania seceded?... From North America?!?
...No from Philadelphia.
True story:
A dump truck overturned on I-25 between Denver and C-Springs. Was carrying DIRT dug out of the ground from a uranium mine. (Remember, this stuff is dirt and does not even have the requirement of being in a covered dump truck)
Well a truck overturned on the highway. OMG, you would have thought the world came to an end. I-25 was closed, hazmat people running all over the place in their little white suits, millions of dollars, etc. All for DIRT!
Now this was near C-Springs (over 90 miles from CU Boulder) and the Governor was getting calls from panicked parents seeing if little Johnny or little Sally was ok IN BOULDER. Gads, ignorance runs rampant about nuclear in this country.
Heck, my dad was a uranium exploration geologist and I grew up with uranium samples in my bedroom. (A heck of a lot hotter than the dirt spill BTW)
Granite countertops are all the rage. I wonder if these same folks who go into a panic about dirt would have apoplexy if they ever learned that uranium is naturally found in granite.
Also I bet there would be EPA bans against the background count if they could. LOL!
Yet right after it happened, I saw some dumbass on TV with a cig hanging out of his mouth pontificating he was going to sue because he might get cancer from the TMI incident in the future.
State rock in California is Serpentine, I think it's a form of jade. They use it for gravel in places where it gets ground up into fine dust and blown around.
They don't tell you serpentine has a relatively large concentration of naturally occurring arsenic and asbestos.
Outstanding. Did you make this up?
I would love to be that talented.
I copied and pasted it. It was on a message board I found in google cache. So I couldn't even credit who ever did make it up.
Thank you!
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