(name removed by request) wrote: I ran into your site after a series of searches on dry casks since my parents live in Athens, AL, home of the Browns Ferry Nuclear plant. We own one of the hotels in Athens, and every six months or so, contractor crews that work at the plant stay with us. They are very well paid and are very, very blue collar. In April of 2011, one of the worst tornado outbreaks in the area turned the Huntsville area into a weather disaster zone. I lived in Madison, AL at the time, and heard the tornado siren three times that day which was very unusual. And after the power went off early that evening after reports of the tornados, it didnt come back on for a week. The entire area was in a state of emergency--no power, no automotive fuel, and no outside food. We had morning radio addresses from the head of Emergency Management, and radio stations became the public information source. People armed themselves to protect themselves and their neighbors. We had a curfew from dusk until dawn. Cell phones signals didnt work 24 hrs after the power outage since tower backup batteries died. Automotive fuel was hard to find because pumps wouldnt work without power. I drove over 1 hour away to get gas and had to wait for 1.5 hours in line. It was like the end of the world with a zombie apocalypse-feel after dark. I drove to Athens to my parents house and found that whey were lucky enough to have power and so was our hotel. I stayed there for the week. During this outbreak, a tornado passed close to Browns Ferry, knocking out power to the plant. I didnt know how serious this was until I ran into this article today: dailykos/story/2011/04/28/971235/--Station-Blackout-at-Browns-Ferry-Update Almost a year later one night at the hotel, I was chatting with one of the plant contractor crew leads about Fukushima and asked him what happened at the local plant when the power went out during the tornados? He had mentioned that this story never made it outside the plant, but we were close to a disaster. He said THAT ONE OF THE VALVES TO THE GENERATORS WOULDNT OPEN. He told me someone physically went into the pipe and forced it to work, but that if someone didnt, we would have had a problem cooling the core and a meltdown scenario. And all the while, there would have not have even been power or a solid communication medium with which to broadcast this to the hundreds of thousands living in the area unaware of the situation. Since this reactor uses the same Siemens controllers as Fukushima, I have a hunch that their system is infected with Stuxnet as you theorized for Fukushima--especially with how relaxed the attention to detail is at that plant. I could easily see how someone could have gotten a flash drive in there. Theyve been cited so many times for non-compliance and even had to take the reactors off-line for years. Thoughts?
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:14:00 +0000
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