Firefighters (click here) were called to the Duke Energy's Harris Nuclear Power Plant early Wednesday morning after a fire in a chemical room.
Around 5 a.m., emergency crews arrived at the plant after an employee said an industrial dryer was on fire.
Officials told ABC11 that the machine is in one of their commercial property buildings that is outside of the "power block." However, the dryer was near cleaning supplies and chemicals.
The blaze was quickly extinguished, but to make sure, firefighters had to pull insulation from the machine. Fans were also brought in to ventilate the building....
North Carolina is guilty of hoarding. If not nuclear rods, then coal ash. When one looks at the state from a health and responsible government perspective North Carolina is nothing but a disaster waiting to happen.
August 8, 2008
One of the most lethal patches of ground in North America (click here) is located in the backwoods of North Carolina, where Shearon Harris nuclear plant is housed and owned by Progress Energy. The plant contains the largest radioactive waste storage pools in the country. It is not just a nuclear-power-generating station, but also a repository for highly radioactive spent fuel rods from two other nuclear plants. The spent fuel rods are transported by rail and stored in four densely packed pools filled with circulating cold water to keep the waste from heating. The Department of Homeland Security has marked Shearon Harris as one of the most vulnerable terrorist targets in the nation....
There is a commercial laundry on the property near the nuclear facility? Why? Employees at the facility have to wear badges to record their exposure. I guarantee you employees outside the nuclear facility don't.
March 18, 2011
Wake County and Mecklenberg County (click here) are nearly tied in the state projections of cancer demographics in North Carolina. East carry 8 percent of the total cases of cancer in North Carolina which means 16% of the states cancer occurrences. No other county even comes close to the high incidence in these two counties.
Mecklenberg County is where Charlotte is located and the place where Governor McCrory was Mayor. It might explain why the Governor is so insensitive to any health related concerns in the state.
McGuire Nuclear Station on Lake Norman is just over 15 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina.
The only other nuclear energy facility in North Carolina is in Brunswick County. Brunswick County has a projected cancer rate of 1010 cases. But, Brunswick County has a population of approximately 108,000 people while Mecklenberg and Wake counties have approximately 1 million citizens.
I'd be curious as to the demographic of the patients which is not online. How many cancer cases in all these areas occurred from life long residents/years of exposure to environmental impacts. It would be an interesting study that every hospital can examine from their demographic records.
I guarantee there are going to be higher incidence of cancer near a nuclear power facility than any other type. The reason, more than likely, the higher percentage of the local population is effected by cancer in Brunswick County is due to the greater exposure to water than the other two. More than likely if a complete study of the country were conducted North Carolina would be among the highest in proximal distance to nuclear power plants and cancer rates. The state is just negligent about it's citizens. If the people within the states are policing their own wellness there would be even higher rates in North Carolina.
Above Map (click here)
Around 5 a.m., emergency crews arrived at the plant after an employee said an industrial dryer was on fire.
Officials told ABC11 that the machine is in one of their commercial property buildings that is outside of the "power block." However, the dryer was near cleaning supplies and chemicals.
The blaze was quickly extinguished, but to make sure, firefighters had to pull insulation from the machine. Fans were also brought in to ventilate the building....
North Carolina is guilty of hoarding. If not nuclear rods, then coal ash. When one looks at the state from a health and responsible government perspective North Carolina is nothing but a disaster waiting to happen.
August 8, 2008One of the most lethal patches of ground in North America (click here) is located in the backwoods of North Carolina, where Shearon Harris nuclear plant is housed and owned by Progress Energy. The plant contains the largest radioactive waste storage pools in the country. It is not just a nuclear-power-generating station, but also a repository for highly radioactive spent fuel rods from two other nuclear plants. The spent fuel rods are transported by rail and stored in four densely packed pools filled with circulating cold water to keep the waste from heating. The Department of Homeland Security has marked Shearon Harris as one of the most vulnerable terrorist targets in the nation....
There is a commercial laundry on the property near the nuclear facility? Why? Employees at the facility have to wear badges to record their exposure. I guarantee you employees outside the nuclear facility don't.
March 18, 2011
...The ABC11 I-Team (click here) consulted Paul Turinsky, a nuclear physics professor at NC State, to learn more about the cooling facility and the spent fuel rods inside them.
"They're a pool," Turinsky said. "They look like a very deep swimming pool. Those pools have 20-30 feet of water above those assemblies, and that water has to be cooled."
But keeping them cooled has caused great concern among critics. Last year the investigative journalism group, Project Sensored, ranked safety issues at Shearon Harris the fourth most under reported story of the year because of the potential for fires in the spent fuel pools.
The local nuclear watchdog group NC Warn is just as concerned about terrorism.
"There's just no way to know if someone were trying to drain the water out of those pools either from the ground or an attack by air," said Jim Warren, NC Warn.
Progress Energy spokesperson Julia Milstead said, "It would be highly unlikely that any water would drain out of them."
The pools are kept in a secure building....
Mecklenberg County is where Charlotte is located and the place where Governor McCrory was Mayor. It might explain why the Governor is so insensitive to any health related concerns in the state.
McGuire Nuclear Station on Lake Norman is just over 15 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina.
The only other nuclear energy facility in North Carolina is in Brunswick County. Brunswick County has a projected cancer rate of 1010 cases. But, Brunswick County has a population of approximately 108,000 people while Mecklenberg and Wake counties have approximately 1 million citizens.
I'd be curious as to the demographic of the patients which is not online. How many cancer cases in all these areas occurred from life long residents/years of exposure to environmental impacts. It would be an interesting study that every hospital can examine from their demographic records.
I guarantee there are going to be higher incidence of cancer near a nuclear power facility than any other type. The reason, more than likely, the higher percentage of the local population is effected by cancer in Brunswick County is due to the greater exposure to water than the other two. More than likely if a complete study of the country were conducted North Carolina would be among the highest in proximal distance to nuclear power plants and cancer rates. The state is just negligent about it's citizens. If the people within the states are policing their own wellness there would be even higher rates in North Carolina. Above Map (click here)
