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.
No worries. Coast guard's got it. Ask Chertoff.
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Sounds like a Muslim terrorist plot. (Just wanted to be the first)
Pathetic
Is the plant anywhere near the Susquehanna Hat Company?
On what continent is this located?
Pennsylvania
Thanks Palladin,I think that is the one near my son.
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SUSQUEHANNA! Slowly I turned...Step by step, inch by inch...
There. All fixed ! :-)
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BUSH'S FAULT!
You are a tool for the left and I hope a Coast Guardsman whips you arse one day
Susquehanna! On Bagel Street?
What could it be? What's that smell associated with?
Is it near Allentown?
You know my brother was born on Bagel Street. Did you know my brother?
Not that far way, a little north and east of central PA
"You are a tool for the left and I hope a Coast Guardsman whips you arse one day"
It was a euphemistic statement to a tired response on port operations. The coasties are my brothers, but they can't do it all.
fatima, they are really playing it down on the news. They say it's a "low-level" incident; that whatever it is, it's contained within the plant; and as of right now, there's no danger to the public.
But then--that's what they said when TMI blew. I lived ten miles from that nuclear plant, and when the enormity of it became known two days later, there was mass panic. No gas at the pumps, no cash in the MAC machines. It was chaos trying to evacuate.
Susquehanna Plant is in Berwick. The alerts went out to EMA in Luzerne and Columbia counties.
I'm about 80 miles from there.
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