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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.
C'mon kid! Tell me your name so I can tell your mother.
Everything looks OK in those photos. Are they from today?
Of course, you can't see radiation.
There's hardly any wind here tonight.
I've seen your posts about the ports deal and your back door criticism of the US military branch of the Coast Guard is obvious.
"Back door criticism of the US military branch of the Coast Guard?" Never in a jillion years. The military is the only thing holding this country together, and whom has the highest respect of the american people. I AM guilty of criticizing Chertoff on his and others contention that the coast guard is going to adequate protect our ports from every container coming in. They can't do it, they are not able to do it, and typically they become first responders after something has occured, to know fault of their own due mainly to mission. You misread my intent and if it doesn't clarify it, well I tried.
Halon is a fire suppressant gas used for electrical and electronic equipment in enclosed spaces. An automatic actuation of a fire protection system in a space which has Safety Related Equipment(needed to safely shutdown a nuclear power plant) requires notification to the NRC usually at the lowest level of emergency action levels. The halon is used in place of water or CO2 which tends to damage or destroy the equipment.
The emergency action levels are:
Unusual Event - Minor screwup
Alert - You guys are starting to really mess up
Site Area Emergency - NRC is really going to be pissed.
General Emergency - Major malfunction with potential release of radioactive material to the environment.
"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."
Yawn. It's in the non-nuclear part of the plant. This is only news if someone thinks release of a gas no more dangerous than air is of importance.
We had to evacuate our workplace one day because of a 'burnt smell' and fire detectors going off ... someone left their popcorn in the microwave oven too long.
But then again, mountain lions sleeping behind someones house gets national CNN and fox news attention, they are flogging still the aruba murder case like its national news ... so maybe a non-event at a power plant is 'news'.
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here is a map of the counties in PA
"BUSH'S FAULT!"
Oh, come on!
Why is it Bush's fault?
The article doesn't even mention Bush.
Umm....D'ya want to go back to my place?
Timing seems a little too coincidental to me...
President Bush is in India discussing nuclear power with their leaders right now.
He has also promoted building more nuke plants in the USA to relieve our dependence on foreign oil and voila...an Emergency Alert is issued at one of our plants.
I thought "Slowly I turn ... step by step" was triggered by the mere mention of "Cincinnati" - was it "Susquehanna"?
I remember it from "Make Room for Daddy" - but it was in vaudeville before that, wasn't it? And maybe Abbott and Costello? (Funny that they should come up on this thread, too.)
Susquehanna was the Stooges.
slowly I turn...step by step....
That's an interesting observation, but I believe it's just a coincidence.
There are minor incidents at our plants quite often. They never make the headlines.
Thanks for the explanation. The EMA guy interviewed said that this incident is second from the lowest of the 4 categories. At least, that was the initial assessment.
But then...the levies in NO were NOT failing the day Katrina hit. Everyone went to bed thinking NO had dodged the bullet.
We never seem to get the whole truth right away.
I lived within 20 miles of a nuke plant for years and never remember hearing about any problems. It is the timing thing that has me going hmmmmmm ..... I'll take the tin foil off my head. That may help. ;*)
Of course, the "enormity" was overblown, and the "mass panic" was unnecessary.
On a related note, deaths caused by Chernobyl are actually magnitudes less than what was predicted.
More people die riding ferry boats than in nuclear power plant incidents -- and nuclear power benefits many more people than ferry boats. But somehow many people think ferry boats are a necessary risk, and Nuclear Power should be banned.
"Slowly I turned...Step by step, inch by inch..."
LOL...I haven't heard that in years.
Maybe it is the copper wire thief.........
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