Friday, September 14, 2018

(Natural News) Hurricane Florence, which achieved landfall early Friday morning, has achieved a direct hit on the Brunswick nuclear power facility in Southport, NC. The eye of the hurricane — where the winds are the most severe — is right now swirling directly over the nuclear power containment buildings, battering them with 100+ MPH winds.

As Natural News reported earlier, there are at least twelve active nuclear power plants in the direct path of Hurricane Florence. Many Americans are concerned about whether these nuclear power facilities are prepared to survive a worst-case scenario of a direct hit.



Now, we know that direct hit has taken place. Thankfully, hurricane winds dropped from 140 MPH to around 100 MPH over the last 48 hours. This may be the saving grace that prevents these nuclear power plants from being severely damaged or destroyed by the storm.

As the map shows, below, the Brunswick power plant is located just South of Wilmington, North Carolina. This is precisely where the eye of the hurricane made landfall

North Carolina officials are currently reporting that nearly half a million customers have lost power.

Media lies to the public about the shutting down of nuclear power plants
The Brunswick nuclear power plant is one of several that have been reportedly “shut down” before the storm’s arrival. But the media, not surprisingly, has been systematically lying to the public about these shut downs.

Nuclear power plants require weeks of cooling pumps to function for an effective shutdown. They can’t simply be switched off in an instant like a light switch. If the cooling pumps fail at any time during the weeks-long shutdown procedure, the nuclear fuel rods can boil off the coolant water and rise in temperature until a nuclear meltdown occurs.

None of this is being reported to the public by the lying media, which routinely whitewashes the risks of nuclear power.

At this point, all we can do is hope and pray the Brunswick nuclear facilities withstand the winds and floods of the storm. Even if something goes wrong with one or more of these facilities, rest assured the media will lie and cover it up even while radiation is released into the atmosphere, just like they all did during the Fukushima catastrophe.

The storm looks OK for now.
The gusts are at 100mph but most of time it's not that severe.
I don't think any nuclear power stations will be affected.

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I like the way they roll in the US.. .

The comments are hilariously depressing.

There is no tragedy that the Trumptards or their favoured conspiracy bloggers won't exploit.

They have no shame.

SadKangaroo wrote on Sep 15^th, 2018 at 7:49am:


Your stupidity is depressing!

Richdude wrote on Sep 15^th, 2018 at 11:53am:


I point out how callous the Trump supporters are being by trying to politicise the issue and you call me stupid?

Is there anything you won't defend from the right?

Wake up you fool.  You can't just insult your way out of the truth.

And you'll notice (if you can comprehend past a headline) that TGP censors any comments that aren't 110% in support of the narrative that is being commented on. 

So naturally if you look at the comments it seems that it's true that all looters are black and black only, they only vote Dems, Democrat Mayors hand out drugs to their constituents in times like this when they can't score, they condone looting of their communities and even if you kill a looting democrat voter, it won't help the cause because they can vote illegally from beyond the grave.

Those who took the time, passed moderation and weren't just censored and commented on the article are trying to politicise the issue of an ongoing natural disaster.

If you don't find that depressing that these armchair warriors would do such a thing, while complaining about how bad the left are yourself, you're a big part of the problem.

Or perhaps I'm just stupid and should go buy a MAGA hat made in China and start lying to myself so I can believe everything that Trump says, even when the end of his sentence contradicts the beginning.

I guess I'd also need to forget what the word "contradict" or even "sentence" mean, that's far too intelligible for the idiot crowd I need to be a part of in order to not be considered stupid by such a dazzling intellect as yourself Rich.

Bugger used to mean big words again.

MAKE AMERICA GRATE AGAIN!

(that's better)

Rich, if you want to defend those comments or any of the bullshit claims already made, be my guest, but it gives you no right to claim that someone else is being stupid when you support such disgusting actions. 

But let's say they're not serious and are just trolling, or joking around.  Comedy = tragedy + time.  "Plus TIME".  Commenting like this while the storm is in progress if they're joking and not simply exploiting the plight of the people in the path of the storm for political reasons isn't much better.

I'll remind you of how you supported this the next time you take issue with something the left has said to remind you that it's ok because you've condoned it and even gone as far as defending it by attacking anyone calling it out.

But if you want to keep defending it, you will have only proven the type of person you are more than anything else.

The stage is yours sunshine.

Richdude wrote on Sep 15^th, 2018 at 11:30pm:


[i] Sadly I can read the minds of these lunatics and their minions in the media. It takes weeks for a reactor to cool day not hours as reported in the lying fake news.[/i] The media has had a news bl
The aptly named Cape Fear River is still rising.




Monday, September 17, 2018 by: Mike Adams      
Tags: Brunswick, emergency, FEMA, Flooding, hot shutdown, Hurricane Florence, NRC, nuclear meltdown, nuclear power, storm
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Image: Emergency declared at Brunswick nuclear power plant in North Carolina… all personnel blocked from entering the facility as “hot shutdown” under way

(Natural News) The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared a state of emergency for both units of the Brunswick nuclear power facilities in North Carolina. An “unusual event” has occurred which is interfering with the ongoing “hot shutdown” of the nuclear power plants (a process which takes several weeks to complete).

Full details of the event are found at this NRC.gov nuclear power plant alert page, which states:

UNUSUAL EVENT DUE TO SITE CONDITIONS PREVENTING PLANT ACCESS

“A hazardous event has resulted in on site conditions sufficient to prohibit the plant staff from accessing the site via personal vehicles due to flooding of local roads by Tropical Storm Florence.”

Notified DHS SWO, FEMA OPS, and DHS NICC. Notified FEMA NWC, NuclearSSA, and FEMA NRCC via email.

In other words, the Brunswick power facilities can no longer be accessed by workers and technicians even as they are running a “hot shutdown” which requires human oversight.

The Brunswick power plants, in other words, are running blind.

Richdude wrote on Sep 18^th, 2018 at 6:38am:


Rich, do you even care that the bulk of your post is entirely wrong?

It's coming from a source that is pro-coal and anti-everything else when it comes to power generation.

The plant is not running blind. 

All but one of the access roads were either cut by flood waters or fallen trees.  Access is being restored to the roads cut by fallen trees and the flood waters are being monitors. 

The plant was already shut down before the Hurrican and was in a hot-standby state so it could quickly resume operations if safe.

Officials said the plant is accessible from one route due to the floodwaters. However, because there are not multiple routes available the plant was placed under an “unusual event,” which is the lowest alert level under Nuclear Regulatory Commission guidelines.

Because of the current situation, they're initiating a full shutdown. 

The plant itself has been unaffected, but due to possible increases flood levels and issues accessing to the plant, they're following regulations and have declared an"unusual event" in accordance with NRC guidelines and are shutting it down.

The staff are staying at the plant in cots using portable toilets because the water was shut off. They have food, drinking water and other supplies, all of this planned for well in advance.

None of what you have said is correct.

Are you that partisan that you don't care that you're spreading fake news?

My advice to anyone who bothers to read the posts by Trump supporters (or really anyone, but especially Trump supporters), fact check their claims.  It's not hard.

Richdude wrote on Sep 18^th, 2018 at 11:36am:



Do you even bother doing any research? Brunswick has five diesel generators and two back up generators. They practice for this all the time. The plant has been shut down and all the generators have to do is cool the rods.



Because of Fukushima, they have installed temporary flood barriers.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article218330060.html

Richdude wrote on Sep 18^th, 2018 at 1:26pm:



2 back up generators. Plus the barriers. Plus these were installed after Fukushima. So stop being irrational.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Sep 18^th, 2018 at 1:35pm:


Irrational??

Duke Energy weighed up the cost of putting in a wall encircling the whole complex. Probably decided that a 1 in 100 year flood was unlikely and cost too much and decided not too. Hence we have these Mickey Mouse temporary barriers which have never been tested.

You do realize what would happen if these barriers fail?

Or am I being irrational? 

Some of this seems eerily familiar.

I remember when Rich and those like him were accusing the left because they didn't trust Trump preparedness or capability when meeting with the North Korean leader saying that the left was hoping for Nuclear war.

By the sounds of it, Rich is hoping for a meltdown.

Poor form mate...

Don't they just withdraw the rods from the core, stop the reaction, and let them sit idle?  You only need to cool extracted rods if there is another problem causing them to over-heat...  they are already in a cooling environment.... diesel pumps would serve to push the coolant around... but if there is no reaction - no need for cooling...

What am I missing here?

Richdude wrote on Sep 19^th, 2018 at 1:08am:


The reports state the access issues are the cause. It's not an emergency and the only other terminology under the current guidelines is "unusual event".

Until we hear otherwise, as usual, you are substituting a command of the facts for a conspiracy theory rather than admitting you're wrong or cannot prove your claims.

And I want you to be wrong. I don't want there to be any threat of a meltdown, flooding issues, a cover-up or anything.

I don't know why you do.

Like seriously, who is telling you to say these things, what is your motivation? Is it another of Trump's backers you claim don't exist because he's self funded, which he isn't, who are pro coal?

I just can't understand the need for you to continually take the side of fake news and conspiracy...

Yeah, I saw that too but I couldn't find the original post.

I wonder how many of them that made such a big deal about how bad fake news is will take the time to correct their comments.

Hah, yeah right.

Richdude wrote on Sep 19^th, 2018 at 10:10pm:


I assume you have a credible source that can corroborate the media blackout claim?

Richdude wrote on Sep 20^th, 2018 at 2:53am:


Can you please share some of these reports? I've not been able to find any from my phone yet.

Thanks.

Richdude wrote on Sep 20^th, 2018 at 1:34pm:



How do you know theres an emergency shutdown if no one is reporting it?

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Sep 20^th, 2018 at 1:53pm:


Has it even been declared an emergency shutdown?

Richdude wrote on Sep 21^st, 2018 at 12:06am:


That is great news.

But, it does prove you have an agenda and have been lying about everything else you've said in this thread.

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2018 at 7:19am:


Prove it bitch.

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 19^th, 2018 at 10:32am:


A, B or C?