re: Hurricane Florence - Catastrophic Flooding Potential

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Heres an interesting observation, Brunswick Nuclear Plant is about 18 miles south of Wilmington NC right on the water.

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What will REALLY bake your noodle is that the Bruswick plant is the EXACT same type of nuclear plant as Fukushima. They are both BWR-1's

Brunswick:




Fukushima

Charleston appears to be okay - i wouldnt want to be at Cherry Grove tho....

The contraflow lanes on I-26 are so empty in comparison to the tradition lanes going out of Charleston. Looks like a nice drive.

Using my master paint skills, here's a look at the outflow channels and ULL the NHC was talking about at 11 am. Healthy ventilation will support strengthening this afternoon, and the dry air looks mostly cut off around the system.

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Heres an interesting observation, Brunswick Nuclear Plant is about 18 miles south of Wilmington NC right on the water.

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Yikes. Don’t need a Fukushima type event. Hope they can take it offline and secure any radioactive material

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Yikes. Don’t need a Fukushima type event. Hope they can take it offline and secure any radioactive material

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They are highly regulated to have plans and procedures in place for a disaster event. And those plans have to be tested annually with lessons learned and so forth. It will be fine.

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Yikes. Don’t need a Fukushima type event. Hope they can take it offline and secure any radioactive material

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one would hope that studies were done on what happened in fukushima and safeguards were put in place to make sure it doesnt happen anywhere ever again. if not, heads should roll.

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Regarding Isaac - when is it safe to start wish-casting?

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It's never too early.

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Healthy ventilation will support strengthening this afternoon, and the dry air looks mostly cut off around the system.

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