Minn. has a nuke plant event

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php


Operators of the Prairie Island nuclear power plant near Red Wing issued an alert early Thursday after workers discovered chlorine bleach leaking from a tank. Xcel Energy says no radioactive material was released and there is no danger to the public. No workers at the plant were injured. The utility company says sodium hypochloride - otherwise known as bleach - is used to treat water that's brought into the plant for cooling. Xcel says the liquid is fully contained within a berm and both of the plant's units continue to operate at full power. The alert, issued shortly before 4 a.m., assures that emergency personnel are readily available to respond if necessary. The plant is about six miles northwest of Red Wing. Its two reactors generate enough to power for nearly 1 million homes.
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[Codeine]

1. Bleach leak! BLEACH LEAK!

Jebus. By that standard my laundry room has a nuke plant event equivalent every few months. And my grocery store had a GEN-YOO-WINE Fukushima when we dropped a case of the shit a few weeks back!

[MineralMan]

2. Insignificant problem.

Bleach? Why bother to post something like this?

[ensho]

3. just to get you excited

US govt. law to report all events at a nuke plant

which you already know

[MineralMan]

11. The law doesn't require you to post every

event report here. I'm not excited at all. Just puzzled, as usual, that you would post an event so mundane as this one.

[RC]

4. Because some here believe any "occurrence" at a nuke plant, even a faulty drinking fountain,

has the potential to make us all glow in the dark. The mind-numbing paranoia against anything nuclear with some people is truly staggering.

[SidDithers]

5. Have you ever read the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf?...nt

Sid

[kristopher]

6. Actually that can be extremely dangerous

Depending on the quantity of sodium hypochloride spilled, the local geography and the weather conditions at the time of the incident it has the potential to produce mass casualties.

[SidDithers]

7. Depending on the quantity spilled, the local geography and the weather conditions at the time...

water has the potential to produce mass casualties.

milk has the potential to produce mass casualties.

oxygen has the potential to produce mass casualties.

ketchup has the potential to produce mass casualties.

rocks have the potential to produce mass casualties.

etc.

Sid

[kristopher]

9. I've dealt with planning for mass spills of "bleach"

It forms a cloud of poisonous gas that is heavier than air. If there is a light wind to move it or if there are population centers "downhill" it can easily result in 10s of thousands of casualties.

[Odin2005]

8. Oh no, I'm gonna die!!!!! (NOT)

[snooper2]

10. "Nuke Plant Event"

Sounds so, well so.... truthy?