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Nuclear Plant Near Epicenter Shuts Down
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Posted on 08/23/2011 12:42:13 PM PDT by matt04

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1 posted on 08/23/2011 12:42:15 PM PDT by matt04
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Over-reaction?


2 posted on 08/23/2011 12:44:15 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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Time will tell.


3 posted on 08/23/2011 12:44:55 PM PDT by Huck (Read Antifederalist Brutus)
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To: matt04

sounds soooooo familiar....


4 posted on 08/23/2011 12:45:08 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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5 posted on 08/23/2011 12:45:29 PM PDT by blam
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Obama is looking for ‘just the right event’ — not this time I guess.


6 posted on 08/23/2011 12:45:37 PM PDT by George from New England
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The AP reports the plant is being run off of four emergency diesel generators,

Those generators are going to cause global warming. We're doomed.

7 posted on 08/23/2011 12:45:44 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SoldierDad
Over-reaction?

Almost certainly sensible rules for what to do in an emergency. When you first feel the shake you don't know how big the earthquake is so you drop the control rods and shut down the reactor. Then you see how bad it was and whether anything was damaged. If everything is OK then you restart the reactor.

8 posted on 08/23/2011 12:46:14 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Due to the earthquake the president has officially implemented Rule 18-1.)
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I certainly hope the reactor was built to withstand a much stronger magnitude quake than a 5.9


9 posted on 08/23/2011 12:47:45 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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“Over-reaction?”

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In our pussified, over-regulated, fearful, bureaucratic make-work society, need you ask?

Undoubtedly a gross, wholly unnecessary overreaction.

10 posted on 08/23/2011 12:48:29 PM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: SoldierDad
Over-reaction?

As a lifelong Californian, it sounds like it to me, though a 5.9 is a decent shaker -- enough to put the fear of God in you! It must have scared the willies out of folks who've never experienced a quake before.

But, I would venture to say, hardly enough to cause the shut-down of a power plant, even -- or especially -- a nuclear one. Around here, they're built to withstand quite a lot more than that.

Just my two cents.

11 posted on 08/23/2011 12:49:46 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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Over-reaction?

Standard safety precaution, I would assume. I'm guessing the plant's seismic sensors aren't aware of the severity of the problem, they just are programmed to shut down the reactor if they sense anything.

Just like the smoke detectors in my house go off every time I try to microwave popcorn. An overreaction? Yes, but standard safety procedure for said smoke detector. ;-)

12 posted on 08/23/2011 12:52:04 PM PDT by CT-Freeper (Visit CTF.org)
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13 posted on 08/23/2011 12:52:15 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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OH MY GOD!

IT FUNCTIONED JUST LIKE IT WAS DESIGNED TO DO!

14 posted on 08/23/2011 12:53:37 PM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
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5.9 is a decent shaker -- enough to put the fear of God in you!

I pray that it does the trick for those SOBs in Washington and especially at Cape Cod, but I'd rather see a rain of fire and brimstone!

FUBO GTFO !

15 posted on 08/23/2011 12:53:47 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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While it’s in shutdown mode, Obama will have an opportunity to keep it locked down and eventually closed.

Hi, we’re from the EPA and we’re here to screw you.


16 posted on 08/23/2011 12:57:49 PM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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Well, except that, from the sounds of it, the plant shut-down was a human decision, not as a result of computer.


17 posted on 08/23/2011 12:58:34 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: the invisib1e hand

I liked Quisp better.


18 posted on 08/23/2011 12:59:18 PM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: SoldierDad

No just normal caution. Controlled shut downs at not a problem. Moat likely SOP.


19 posted on 08/23/2011 12:59:44 PM PDT by Ratman83
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“As a lifelong Californian, it sounds like it to me, though a 5.9 is a decent shaker — enough to put the fear of God in you! It must have scared the willies out of folks who’ve never experienced a quake before.”

Thinking the same thing here. Lifelong Californian also.

I thought when I read this that with the recent awareness of the constant (seemingly) barrage of news about the nuclear in Japan after that quake the powers to be might be a inclined to overreact if nothing else for PR.


20 posted on 08/23/2011 12:59:54 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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