Tsunami may have damaged Indian nuclear plant

afp ^ | Dec 28, 2004

[Truth666]

NEW DELHI: Huge waves that battered the Indian coastline after an earthquake in Indonesia may have damaged a nuclear power plant in southern Tamil Nadu state, the government said on Monday. The Press Trust of India news agency said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had called a meeting on Tuesday to review any damage to the plant.

[Truth666]

After the first time an earthquake took place under a nuclear plant earlier this year in Central Europ, this would continue the series

[Mount Athos]

if it's modern design it doesn't matter.
If it's really old design, big problem.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

They build a nuke-ya-lur plant and it's not even waterproof?

Just...damn! /humor

[RaceBannon]

This is hug and series like we can not even joke about!

[DBrow]

One to watch. The combo of the shaking, to stress the piping, with the wave smacking it may be outside the design envelope.

[coloradan]

NYT headlines tomorrow: Indian Nuclear Plant Succumbs to Tidal Wave, More Than 20,000 Killed.

[rdl6989]

Tidal waves: No danger to Kalpakkam atomic power station

December 26, 2004 15:23 IST


There is no danger to the Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam near Chennai due to the tidal waves caused by tremors in coastal areas on Sunday morning, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd sources said in Mumbai.

The sources told PTI that unit two of the plant was hit by the waves, adding it has been safely shut down.

http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/dec/26tn1.htm

[Robe]

This is no biggie....
after all it has been reported that the quake
"Disturbed the rotation of the earth" and "moved an Island
100 feet to the west"

Now what I want to know is ....
did everybody on the earth lose their
balance or become weightless for a millisecond?
and did the island's anchor chain drag a bit ?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Actually, the fillings in my teeth began to pickup reruns of the Joe Pine Show...

[Robe]

HHHHHMMMmmmmmmmmm... VERY interesting.....

Maybeit accounts to this recent FR post...

"Actress and singer Liza Minnelli was taken to a hospital after falling out of bed and hitting her head in the early morning hours of December 27, 2004 People Magazine reported. 'She was sleeping and she rolled out of bed,' People quoted a police source as saying in an article on its Web site."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309231/posts

[rdl6989]

Well, it could be that Liza may have been drunk, but I don't believe that for one minute (/sarcasm off)