Since so many people seem to think Nuclear power is so dangerous, I thought I might post examples where accidents occur in the usage of other forms of fuels/power. Here's an example of some current "difficulties" in Oklahoma:
Hutchinson Explosions Continue
Evacuations Underway
Hutchinson-AP) -- Police are evacuating several blocks of a Hutchinson mobile home park, following another explosion and fire. Currently the evacuation is in an area bounded by 4th and 11th street and Halstead and Waldron. People evacuated in that area have been taken to the 4H encapment building on the Kansas State Fair grounds.
Several schools have also been evacuated, including Avenue A, Grandview Day School, St. Teresa, McCandless, Hutchinson Middle School, 7th and 8th grades, and Hutchinson High School. Students from Avenue A were taken to Morgan school, Grandview students to the Reno County Education Coop, and St. Theresa students to Holy Cross. Officials advise that if you have children at those schools you can pick them up at the school they were evacuated to. Officials at McCandless advise parents to pick up students as soon as possible.
This latest explosion is blamed on geysers of natural gas that have apparently sprouted all over town in the past 12 hours. Three injuries are reported, two of them serious. One burn victim was flown by helicopter to Wichita.
The first major explosion yesterday destroyed two businesses in downtown Hutchinson. Officials say that blast apparently was triggered by an abandoned natural gas well.
Fire department officials says oil field fire workers are coming from Oklahoma to help deal with the explosion.
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I find it ironic that people are willing to accept the everyday danger we all face from the use of natural gas in our homes, with all of the accompanying injuries and deaths that result every year, yet freak out over something like TMI, where despite a coolant leak, there was no actual threat of a meltdown or massive release of radioactivity.
No one was injured at TMI either. But injuries associated with extremely volatile fossil fuels area common occurrence.
Regards,
Ron |
