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Re: fatal accident at a powerplant in England
Latest report can be found at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1480000/1480876.stm
The power plant uses natural gas to drive turbibes to produce electricty.
I suspect that this also involves the incidental discharge of signifcant
quantities of natural radioactive material to the environment and the
discharge of green house gases to the environment :-)
Fred Dawson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@AECL.CA>
To: "Radsafe (E-mail)" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Sent: 09 August 2001 14:15
Subject: fatal accident at a powerplant in England
> This morning on CBC radio news, I heard a brief report of a fatal accident
> at a powerplant in England that killed three people & injured some others.
> Apparently the plant is NOT a nuclear one, so the reporter of course
didn't
> bother to say what kind it was.
> If it HAD been a nuclear one, you can bet it would have been front-page
> headline news all over the world by now, with antinukes & politicians
> screaming for immediate shutdown of all NPPs.
>
> > Jaro
> >
> >
> > UK: UPDATE 2-Third worker dies after UK power blast.
> >
> > 08/09/2001
> > Reuters English News Service
> >
> > LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - A third worker has died from injuries
sustained
> > from Wednesday's explosion at one of Europe's largest gas-fired power
> > stations at Teesside, northern England, operator Enron said on Thursday.
> >
> > "Sadly a third member of staff died overnight making three fatalities",
a
> > spokesman for the U.S. energy group told Reuters.
> >
> > "One other employee is in Middlesbrough hospital in a stable condition",
> > he added. Two workers were killed on Wednesday after an explosion rocked
> > the 1,875 megawatt plant at around 1340 GMT. A fire that followed the
> > blast led to an evacuation and shut-down of the plant which is on an
> > industrial complex in the Grangetown district of Middlesbrough.
> >
> > Britain's safety watchdog, the Health and Safety Executive has a team of
> > inspectors investigating the cause of the explosion at the plant which
> > employs about 100 people and was commissioned in 1992.
> >
> > "We have no information yet, but hope for some clarification later in
the
> > day", an HSE spokesman said. He added that initial reports had the
> > explosion occurring "somewhere under a steam turbine".
> >
> > Local police have said they believe the incident was an industrial
> > accident.
> >
> > Enron on Thursday said no decision would be taken for several days
> > regarding future operations of the plant.
> >
> > Electricity traders estimated the plant was probably producing 800 to
900
> > megawatts, well below its full capacity, but still accounting for about
> > three percent of current demand.
> >
> > The station's shut-down pushed up wholesale electricity prices on
> > Wednesday by six percent as the market scrambled to cover the output
> > shortfall.
> >
> >
> >
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