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Middletown, Connecticut rocked by explosion
Digital Journal ^ | Sunday Feb7 2010 10:19 AM MST | KJ Mullins

Posted on 02/07/2010 9:27:40 AM PST by malamute

An explosion in Middletown, Connecticut has rocked the town. Initial reports are that about a dozen people have been injured.

Middletown, United States - The Middletown Fire Department just said in a phone interview that they are in the process of putting out a second alarm. There are an unknown number of casualities. The explosion took place at NRG Power Plant on River Road. According to their web site they are the fossil-fueled electric generating plant in the state. Reports are saying that the blast could be felt as far away as Durham.

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KEYWORDS: casualties; connecticut; conneticut; ct; ctngxpsn; energy; explosion; kleen; kleenenergy; masscasualties; middleton; naturalgas; nrg; nrgpower; nrgpowerplant; powerplant
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1 posted on 02/07/2010 9:27:40 AM PST by malamute
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To: malamute

Prayers


2 posted on 02/07/2010 9:31:18 AM PST by svcw (If you are going to quote the Bible know what you are quoting.)
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To: malamute

If it was Terrorism, it would never be reported by our state run fringe media.


3 posted on 02/07/2010 9:32:28 AM PST by Freddd
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To: malamute

Same story in Fox:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585040,00.html


4 posted on 02/07/2010 9:33:11 AM PST by elpinta (DC, TSA: things that make me puke.)
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To: malamute

Well, at least it won’t be near as bad as Three Mile Island.......uh...wait.....

Never mind!


5 posted on 02/07/2010 9:34:41 AM PST by realpatriot (Some spelling errers entionally included!)
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To: malamute

Middletown is a 770MW Oil/Natural Gas, NRG-owned Power Plant


6 posted on 02/07/2010 9:37:33 AM PST by tcrlaf (Obama White House=Tammany Hall on the National Mall)
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To: malamute

Pop goes the CT?

I hope everyone is okay and there’s no disruption.


7 posted on 02/07/2010 9:38:48 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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*** According to their web site they are the fossil-fueled electric generating plant in the state.***

Quite a few things could explode in a coal fired plant. Coal dust, tripped coal pulverizer, loss of sealing oil for the hydrogen in the turbine, loss of combustion air, ect.


8 posted on 02/07/2010 9:39:40 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (GP-35 Grande Puissance-1935)
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To: malamute

Holy crap! That’s what I heard a little while ago. And, I live about 12 miles from there.


10 posted on 02/07/2010 9:41:26 AM PST by raybbr
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To: malamute

FOX reporting “mass casualties”—prayers going up! :-O


12 posted on 02/07/2010 9:44:54 AM PST by pillut48 ("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
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To: malamute

Fox News reported the blast was heard all the way down to Long Island Sound.


13 posted on 02/07/2010 9:45:16 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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I lived in Middletown a few years ago when a natural gas explosion destroyed a newly constructed home. It shook my place. I can’t imagine the force of this blast.


14 posted on 02/07/2010 9:48:03 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“loss of sealing oil for the hydrogen in the turbine”

is H2 used for cooling, & if so, why not air, because H2 has a higher heat capacity?


15 posted on 02/07/2010 9:48:29 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: Freddd

Construction ongoing at the plant. Saying a gas line exploded.

Can we wait for more info before we blame terrorism.


17 posted on 02/07/2010 9:49:37 AM PST by Carley (Are you better off now than one year ago? HELL NO!!!!!)
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To: pillut48

Mass casualties reported on Fox. damn.


18 posted on 02/07/2010 9:49:39 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: malamute

Live police scanner

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=3426


19 posted on 02/07/2010 9:49:55 AM PST by TSgt (I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
The explosion took place at NRG Power Plant on River Road. According to their web site they are the fossil-fueled electric generating plant in the state.

20 posted on 02/07/2010 9:50:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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