BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant

Subject: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: Alice
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 12:45 PM

I just saw this breaking news headline on bbc.com.
Explosion at Connecticut gas power plant

Can't find anything on the tv news channels.
Anyone know what is happening there?

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: Alice
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 12:47 PM

now this on cnn.com

Fire and police officials in Middletown said there were "mass casualties," but no other details were immediately available.

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: gnu
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 12:54 PM

Oh dear.

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: gnu
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 12:57 PM

2 confirmed dead.

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: gnu
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 01:01 PM

CNN

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:17 PM

They say the gas-fired plant was in its "testing phase."

I think it failed a crucial test.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: Alice
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:40 PM

50 workers were inside when it exploded.

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:55 PM

"Gas and oil fired"...I wonder if this was a "gasification" plant.

I hope there are no more casualties -- and that everyone involved gets counseling help.

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 04:08 PM

Wow. They say that no one died but it evidently was a really big explosion heard and felt as far as 20 miles away.

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: Alice
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 04:14 PM

from cbs news:

"At least two people were killed and as many as were 250 people injured, 4 critically, sources told WFSB. There are reports of people trapped under metal, concrete and steel."

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: open mike
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 05:07 PM

well, at least it was not a nuke with radioactive release...
we are addicted to electricity....sorry to hear of those killed and injured by this..

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: Ebbie
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 05:44 PM

God. I hope it's not as bad as now reported.

Associated Press/ updated 3 minutes ago
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - Workers at a power plant under construction were purging natural gas lines when a powerful explosion blew off part of the building Sunday, killing multiple people and injuring at least 14, officials said.
The Middletown mayor's office said five people were known dead and least 12 people were injured.  
Al Santostefano, the deputy fire marshal in Middletown, said 50 construction workers were in the section of the power plant where the explosion happened at 11:17 a.m. He said he did not know what caused the explosion.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35283135/ns/us_news/

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 08:08 PM

Windows as far away as 10 miles were broken by the blast.

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: open mike
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 11:20 PM

one report said that the fatality count was premature, and the death toll had been reduced from the early reports(of 2). Hope we hear the actual figures soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 08:47 AM

They are still saying five were killed this morning.

Evidently the accident happened when they were purging gas from the lines after the initial testing.

Tragic as this accident was to the workers immediately involved, there was negligible impact on the surrounding region other than a few broken windows and the noise of the explosion itself. However, even a partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor, such as happened at Three Mile Island in 1979, can rupture the reactor vessel itself (documented weeks after the accident) and release radioactive gas dispersed for thousands of miles.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: bubblyrat
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:00 PM

Apparently,the company that built the power station are due to soon finish building an identical model,which is now almost ready for "testing", near Newport in South Wales, UK ; there is now likely to be some delay until the cause of the US disaster is ascertained.

Subject: RE: BS: Explosion at Connecticut power plant
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Feb 10 - 01:10 PM

A similar accident occurred in NC not too long ago. Now there is a call for regulations and guidelines on purging gas lines. Seems these are vented indoors not out.