Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant
Desperation, panic grip Japan after quake, nuclear emergency
Remember, Japan is a remarkably uni-cultural society, well experienced with earthquakes and previously thought to be well-prepared for them. In any US city the looting would have started immediately.
All of a sudden I'm wondering how many nuke plants are within range of the New Madrid fault.
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I don't know how many nuke plants are near the New Madrid fault, but I do know that Illinois is the largest producer of electricity by nuke energy in America, follow by Pennsylvania at second, and South Carolina at third.
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The quake has been upgraded to a 9.1 and could go a bit higher.
I am a bit North of the actual New Madrid immediate danger zone here in central Missouri but there is a nuke plant about 20 miles from me.
The one huge negative part about this area IMO. And they are trying to get tax payer funding to build another one here.
link yields 404 error - remove everything after the '9'.
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We were living about 30 miles from Three Mile Island when it went south. The only U.S. national disaster with no injuries and no property damage.
Later I met a guy who wouldn't live within 100 miles of a nuke plant. When I pointed out his house was about three miles below a huge hydroelectric dam, he got kind of a funny look and shut up.
In any US city the looting would have started immediately.
Really? I’ve been in a couple of medium cities either when they were struck by disaster or immediately after. For instance, Grand Island, Nebraska after a dozen tornados came through. Almost everyone rolled up their sleeves and rose to the occasion.
OTOH that was Midwest and Southwest, not the left coast or Northeast.
Mike, just completed a full writeup on a potential 9+ on the New Madrid here:
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com/2011/03/japan-hit-with-magnitude-9-earthquake.html
When I saw that on the news this morning before heading out to the IDPA match I put this as my Facebook status:
"Well, the tragedy in Japan will just about kill any chance of nuke power getting more support in this country. Which means you can pretty much stick a fork in us economically."
What is the engineering like on the TVA dams?
Remember that the Teton dam caused an estimated $1B of damage when it failed in 1976, and that was in 1976 dollars.
Are the TVA dams going to be a source of yet more unnecessary civilian deaths caused by the 20th century's collectivists?
How far is Oak Ridge from the Faults?
Diablo Canyon in Cali is located right on an active fault.
Millstone here in Connecticut is located on the site of the state's largest-ever recorded earthquake--it rang church bells in Boston.
For LarryA:
It's the demographics. But you can't talk about that. New Orleans is NEITHER "left coast" nor "Northeaast". But they had NO shortage of looting. Having the demographics does NOT necessarily mean having the looting. But it DOES significantly predispose towards that condition. The (few) exceptions make the rule.
thorium reactors can't melt down or blow up and they do not need to be refueled as often. The only down side to them is the by product cannot be used to make bombs. Or would that be a benefit? In any case we need to be building them by the truck load.
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