Post 9qX6Ps40ICmXxAxWBk by raye@sunbeam.city
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 (DIR) Post #9qX6Ps40ICmXxAxWBk by raye@sunbeam.city
       2019-12-31T18:42:04Z
       
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       Just before 8am today, I got a text alert that the #5 was rerouted off #Greenwood Ave N between 130th and 145th.  At 10:35, it pinged again saying the bus was still rerouted.I went to the #Seattle Fire Dept blotter, and guess what..., it's A NATURAL GAS LEAK.  Yes, this is the second leak in as many weeks in a neighborhood that has had two past building explosions from leaking gas in the last few years.
       
 (DIR) Post #9qX6PsZuNaIpY7szuy by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2019-12-31T18:59:03Z
       
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       @raye And yet it's nuclear energy that we're supposed to be afraid of.
       
 (DIR) Post #9qX8lsaxCHg9sfzeHQ by raye@sunbeam.city
       2019-12-31T19:25:29Z
       
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       @publius When I lived in San Francisco in the 1990s, I got to see a 4-story apt building exploded from a gas leak and a single-family home totally detonated from being an illegal M-80 fireworks factory.Nuclear power plant meltdowns are worse.
       
 (DIR) Post #9qdHbkzefaahweYS2a by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2020-01-03T18:32:41Z
       
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       @raye The two most severe reactor accidents at civil nuclear power stations in North America ― the loss of cooling with partial core melt at Three Mile Island, & the pressure-tube rupture at Pickering ― resulted in no deaths, no injuries, & no detectible public-health or environmental impacts.Civil power reactors are (leaving out the RBMK-1000, alas) designed to make the worst outcomes physically impossible, & mitigate the rest. They also aren't normally located in heavily built-up areas!