Nuke Plant in Armenia Accident-Waiting-To-Happen

14 05 2011

…. “One only has to look at the history of the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant to understand that it is basically an accident waiting to happen. Following the earthquake in the Armenian city of Spitak in 1988, which measured 6.9 on the Richter scale and killed over 25,000 people,[1] Soviet officials decided to shut down the plant. However, a highly effective economic blockade imposed by Azerbaijan and Turkey in response to the illegal occupation of the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenian troops created conditions which led to the reopening of the plant seven years later, despite expert advice that it should remain deactivated . . .  “

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/05/14/is-another-nuclear-accident-waiting-to-happen-in-armenia/ 


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US nuclear units monitor rising Mississippi River

8 05 2011

HOUSTON, May 6 (Reuters) – Nuclear power-plant operators
are monitoring forecasts for the rising waters of the
Mississippi River and preparing to shut plants later in the
month if flooding threatens access to sites or operation of
plant safety systems, a regulator said on Friday.
High water is not expected to disrupt operations at nuclear
plants located along rivers in the Midwest, but Entergy Corp
(ETR.N: Quote) officials are preparing for high water at three reactor
sites along the Mississippi River from near Vicksburg,
Mississippi, to New Orleans, a company spokesman said.
Entergy’s 1,268-megawatt Grand Gulf nuclear station in
Claiborne County, Mississippi, may be the most vulnerable,
officials said, based on government forecasts for the river to
reach a high of 57.5 feet (17.5 meters) on May 20, some 14 feet
above flood stage. . . .

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN0629012320110506 NOTE: This article from Reuters is put under their ‘news from Africa’ section (????)

Everything’s fine, folks…. move along ….


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