Posted on 11/28/2013 12:03:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake has hit Borazjan, Iran, about 35 miles from the country's sole nuclear power plant, Agence France Presse reports. Seven people are dead and 30 injured, according to Iran's state news agency.
AFP reports that neighboring countries have often expressed concern about Iran's Russian-built reactor and risk of radioactive leaks if an earthquake hits.
In 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported that scientists and nuclear watchdog organizations were concerned about the possibility of a Chernobyl-like accident at the plant.
Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist for global security program the Union of Concerned Scientists, told the newspaper: "We have had concerns about the safety of this reactor and continue to urge the international community to examine its operations."
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The Mossad!
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
God works in mysterious ways.
Allah Akbar
They built the reactor on a fault line?
Idiots. They’ll poison us all.
karma is so freakin awesome isn’t it
Correct me if I’m wrong the last strong Earthquake occur when Iamanutjob stated he can run Israel into the sea. About a week later God sent Iran a message. People never learned.
Blaming US Fracking in 3...2...1...
Russian-built reactor?
ah yes their safety record is peerless. no need to worry about an earthquake splitting it in half....
Think we need a 9.6.....
What a coincidence, coming just a week after the Iranian nuclear treaty. Either Allah is angry with the Iranians, or Israeli scientists have developed a new earthquake-producing weapon.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Blessed Thanksgiving!
You may be more right than you know.......
Bush’s fault!
Not here though. Yeah they need 9.6 there. :-)
That’s all?
Well, Christmas is coming.
Netanyahu must have gone up to Mt. Sinai after Obama’s call.
5.6 is hardly worth reporting but Iran has dead - weird
Oh well
This reminds me of an old, old SNL skit. Ed Asner was the senior nuke engineer, and was retiring.
In his retirement speech, he reminded everybody that, “You can never put too much water in a nuclear reactor.”
Some moment in time after he left, of course, therre was an ‘incident’, and the young lions argued as to which way, Asner’s truism was meant to be understood. The majority won out, and they drained the reactor pile.
—scene shift—
Ed Asner is on the beach in Hawaii, admiring the Western view. Everybody else on the beach is rising and staring at the glow coming from the East.
Asner’s wife comes over, ditzy blonde and all, and asks him what he makes of the new view, to the East.
(Sigh) “Yup, I told ‘em. You can never put too much water in a nuclear reactor!” (Shakes his head and walks away.)
Fine’.
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