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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& it’s a local report
http://www.courant.com/community/middletown/hc-middletown-ct-power-plant-explosion,0,3952195.story
thanks. do you by any chance have a reference?
No reference needed: H2 (as a low pressure gas) is used inside almost every medium and large sized generator worldwide.
The H2 transfers the heat naturally created inside the generator windings by electric resistance to the pure water heat exchangers in the back of the generator. (Outside the generator, auxiliary water cools that heated pure water.) We need pretty exotic oil, hydrogen and air seals to keep the hydrogen inside, the oil in the bearings, and the air outside, but the technology is used in thousands of plants worldwide. H2 is used because it has good heat exchange characteristics, is clean (non-electrically damaging) and (most important) creates little “air friction” inside the generator casing with the rapidly spinning rotor.)
An explosion could easily affect 50 workers - but still, I'd suspect a flammable gas building up in an enclosed space
Natural gas? Maybe, but it'd have to have built up inside somehow to explosive levels without anybody noticing, evacuating and clearing out and stopping hot work. Could be of course, but not in any turbine building I've worked inside of: We're always checking for gasses and checking out before permitting work in enclosed spaces, hot work, epoxying, painting, etc.
I'd be more suspicious of explosive dust being ignited, but as others have pointed out, it's unlikely to see that coal dust in a Connecticut site.
Prayers for the injured and families of the dead.
First thought that comes to mind is terrorism. What a perfect target to do it with and be able to disguise it as an *accident*.
...well I guess everyone thats using the addrees 1340 River Road, Middletown , Connecticut. Kleen Energy Systems plant in the news has it wrong then.....
Me too, metmom! But if that's what it is, then I'm pretty sure the Obama Administration would try to hide this from us. He's already taken considerable flack for being "soft" on terrorism. He doesn't need any more bad publicity on this score. So I imagine he'd try to keep it "dammed up" in the White House....
The internet is great for finding out stuff like that, even if the official word is that it was an *accident*.
Color me skeptical, but.....
In 1937 a natural gas explosion at the New London School in New London, Texas, killed over 300 people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion
I’m guessing it’s news without associated URLs.
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WTNH says at least 5 confirmed dead...
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at least 14 hurt
Thank you!
blah blah...search & rescue on site with dogs
5 dead 12 injured so far. families vitims not notified. gas explosion, terrorism ruled out
LMHO!
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