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    Hurricane Irma: Odds & Ends

    Here is a maps of Florida with Nuclear Power Plants noted. Many are in the current path of Hurricane Irma!



    Not a pleasant thought.

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    Not pleasant thought at all....

    The record-breaking Hurricane Irma moves toward Florida, forecasted to reach its coasts as early as Saturday. Right in its estimated path stand two nuclear power plants—Turkey Point and St. Lucie.
    source:
    http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2293...ts-in-florida/




    In 1992, Turkey Point withstood Hurricane Andrew, a Category 4 storm and one of the strongest the country has experienced seen. The plant sustained $90 million in damages and had to run on backup generators for more than five days. Its access road was blocked, communication systems shut down, and fire protection system damaged. The exhaust stack of one of its oil-powered units cracked.
    Yet the reactors, shielded by six feet of steel-reinforced concrete and 20 feet above ocean level, remained unscathed. No radioactive material leaked, according to the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
    The St. Lucie plant, located further north along the eastern coast, has also weathered powerful storms, like Frances in 2004 and Wilma the year after. But none of them have been quite as powerful as Irma is expected to be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by A99 View Post
    Not pleasant thought at all....

    The record-breaking Hurricane Irma moves toward Florida, forecasted to reach its coasts as early as Saturday. Right in its estimated path stand two nuclear power plants—Turkey Point and St. Lucie.
    source:
    http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2293...ts-in-florida/



    All that was up to 25 years ago, hopefully they have managed to harden these sites up a bit, rather then let them deteriorate over time.

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    I guess a conspiracy nut would say not to trust any of those companies that build and operate nuclear power plants. But if that's the case, I must be one because of what's been going on with Fukishima and how we only find out about how bad things really are there AFTER some new thing goes terribly wrong there that they knew before was going to eventually happen but kept that from the public.

    The same companies build and operate those plants world-wide, including Japan. So if they're doing that kind of thing there, they are probably doing it here too.
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    I think it's a standard policy to put Nuclear reactors normally on the coast and on spurs. That way if there is a catastrophic failure less people are harmed.
    What I find hugely worrying is a government hell bent on removing even the terms 'climate change' from environmental reports and discussion. Surely the sheer power and hideousness of Irma may help sway a few minds about its reality and globally we can pull our fingers out and do something fast before it's too late.

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    Our visitors give us indirect messages about what we should do to save ourselves in very shocking and tangible ways sometimes.


    Let's take cattle mutilations, for example. We already know about them so no need for me to go into that 'phenomenon' but supposing those mutilations are a symbolic indirect message to us for us to terminate the U.S. cattle industry?


    Cattle produce methane which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. 10% to 12% of the US emissions of methane is due to cattle.


    So could it be that our visitors are telling us via those cattle mutilations, that we should stop eating beef as one of many things we can do to save ourselves and the planet?


    But how many people out there would be willing to stop eating hamburgers? If people can't make a simple dietary change like that, how can we expect people to join car pools or use public transportation to get to work? Or pay more taxes to replace our power plants with wind turbines? And the list goes on and on....

    All politicians are concerned about is first getting elected and then getting re-elected for as long as possible. Those politicians who are climate change deniers now, would change into believers if the majority of their voters were climate change believers too. But that's not how it is now. Until that changes, we'll never be able to slow down the rate of climate change and ultimately reverse it (if that's possible, many are saying it's already too late for that)
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