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Explosion at Connecticut power plant causes "mass casualties"

How did an explosion in Connecticut cause causalties in Massachucetts? 😛

I suspect a plot to deny the residents served by this power plant the right to watch the Super Bowl...gotta be a conspiracy by the folks with the black helicopters.
 
bobsmith1492 said:
Go easy on its feelings. Remember this is America; people don't fail, they get "incomplete"s. The plant just needs to try again...
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Two of my classes have semester long assignments that we are supposed to be building off of all semester. However if you don't do the assignment you don't fail... you get an incomplete!

I could understand an incomplete if say you make it to week 12 of the semester and have an excused emergency and you have to miss an exam... but for not completing an assignment assigned at the start of the semester? :\
 
Regs said:
Don't forget the people who lost power. They were casualities too.
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Why would anyone have lost power from a plant that wasn't even operational to begin with? Not to mention that losing a single power plants would have no affect on the nations power grid.
 
BrownTown said:
Why would anyone have lost power from a plant that wasn't even operational to begin with? Not to mention that losing a single power plants would have no affect on the nations power grid.
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Wow, so it's even less dramatic.

In today's news: An elephant farts.
 
It will probably turn out to be something easily prevented . I saw the story on Conagra plant explosion caused by a gas explosion.

Members of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board passed a new set of recommendations to prevent incidents like the explosion at the ConAgra Slim Jim plan last September. Board investigators found that a contractor purged a natural gas line into the building without ventilation.

The recommendations say that under most circumstances contractors need to ventilate gas with a hose or pipe when clearing a line of air. When contractors think they can’t ventilate the gas outside, the recommendations say they need to approve the plan with the local fire marshal or building inspectors.

The recommendations will go to the National Fire Protection Association and the American Gas Association for futher consideration before being incorporated into the two organizations’ rules.
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It needs further consideration ? WTF
 
Under construction power plant, purging a natural gas line. Always an evolution that contains some element of danger, as you're dealing with a flammable gas being vented to atmosphere.
Depending on what sort of weather conditions they had, they might not have had sufficient wind to dissipate the gas quickly enough, or possibly even a temperature inversion that would tend to keep the gas concentrated (though less likely, especially in CT in winter time).

Oh, and mass casualties, to the lay person, usually tends to bring large numbers to mind.....since it's just another way to say massIVE casualties. 🙄
 
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