UH-OH: Virginia Nuke Plant on Faultline Designed to Only Withstand 5.9-6.1 Quake

I saw smoke coming from one of them on the news... Was it steam or smoke? They didn't leave it on it long enough to tell. Maybe they had a fire, or maybe there's a steam leak?

i agree. it!

why the hell do they keep building on faultlines? really, another one?

Last Edited by Tiny Green on 08/23/2011 10:30 PM

Was this local news? Is there a link?

We should get rid of nuclear power altogether. It works in theory, but in reality the people managing the system are fare too incompetent to be trusted with that kind of responsibility.

(FOR ADDED LINK!)

I saw what looked like steam in a news clip, too, from helicopter cam. I think it may have been CNN. Then HLN Nancy Grace kept saying North Anna was putting out steam.
From the snip of article below, I get the idea we're not supposed to be seeing steam under normal conditions?

Info about Lake Anna here with a interactive demonstration at the bottom:
[link to www.dom.com]

Cooling System
The process of generating electricity at North Anna begins with the fission, or splitting, of uranium atoms in the reactor vessel. The vessel is filled with water (not from the lake), which controls, or moderates, the fission process, and removes heat from the reactor core. This water is kept under very high pressure, which prevents it from boiling although it is heated to three times the normal boiling temperature.

This hot, pressurized water is pumped to nearby steel containers called steam generators. In the steam generators, the water passes through thousands of small U-shaped tubes — about the diameter of your little finger — transferring its heat to a second, slightly cooler water system. This secondary water becomes steam, which travels through large pipes to spin the turbines in the adjoining building.

Spinning at 1,800 RPM, the turbines drive a generator that produces electricity. The steam then is condensed back to a liquid by a third cooling system before it returns to the steam generator to start the process again. The third cooling system's water comes from Lake Anna, and flows through the private WHTF before returning to the lake.

Most N-plants are built on faults in the good ol' USA

Oops, here's the live link.
[link to www.dom.com]

industry run by rote. for money.

Thanks for the info and the link!

I think we dodged a huge bullet.

From what I've heard, too, it's steam.

I don't know though. The whole thing makes me nervous, especially being so close. There's a lot they're not telling us (as usual), that will come out much later.

It must be retarded nuclear engineers...a fault line you say?? BUILD ON IT! It's obviously the safest place! Why, there hasn't been an earthquake for 170 years! Odds are certainly in our favor!!

It was a 6.0
It was made to withstand that

The reactors shut down after the quake.

Would they still be steaming if they aren't running?

NUCLEAR EXPERT: "WE JUST DODGED A BULLET ON THIS..."



Thread: ABC News: Virginia nuke plant has to “go to the backup to the backup” power supply — “That doesn’t sound good” (VIDEO)

yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"An "unusual event" was declared at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in MD, Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station in York County, PA.as well as the Limerick Power Plant in Montgomery County, PA and Three Mile Island South of Harrisburg. A landslide was also reported near Calvert Cliffs and Maryland officials are investigating the situation."

[link to www.examiner.com]

Agreed. If only there was any semblance of forethought, it could be viable.

good thing it was made in America !

every plant should be designed to withstand 10.0, I DONT CARE WHERE IT IS. They're making enough money with that technology, they really don't need to be cutting corners.

This is big doom here

If that 6.0 really was a foreshock....

excellent post, not your first pinned thread i note from the karma page keep up the good work its appreciated

Ok, I was not going to be all conspiratorial about Fukushima but now this has happened a mere 4 1/2 months later. This is just entirely too coincidental (also Fort Calhoun and the Nevada weapons site).

Something is going on here, something planned and deliberate. There is NO way this is coincidence due to mother nature and the natural fault lines. Anyone else feeling the same? Could it be HAARP or otherwise? If so, what is the agenda? Will the elite be heading to their underground vaults leaving us to fend for ourselves in radioactive wastelands? What is happending? I have had enough!

considering this 5.8 did nothing I would hope the nuke plant would withstand way more

DOOM!



BRING IT ON!!!

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god has more control over earthquakes than governments do, whether thats by controlling people who have the power to cause them via magic or gods own power.

think what happened to new orleans and haiti both known for the dark arts that was no coincidence either

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This looks awkward:


Quake sensors removed around Virginia nuke plant due to budget cuts

By David Edwards, August 23rd, 2011

A nuclear power plant that was shut down after an earthquake struck central Virginia Tuesday had seismographs removed in 1990s due to budget cuts... [link to www.rawstory.com]