Huge Explosion at U.S. Gas Power Plant

[Cheetah]

News report from local paper: Hartford Courant

The plant is located in Middletown, Connecticut.

Several people are apparently dead, and at least a hundred is wounded.

A resident of East Hampton almost directly across the river from the plant said he heard a load booming explosion at about 11 a.m. Immediately afterward his house was hit with a concussion that caused him to believe someone had driven an automobile into his home. The concussion interrupted services at a nearby East Hampton church, causing parishioners to speculate that the area had just experienced an earthquake.

Other witnesses said they felt the concussion as far away as North Branford and Durham.

A homeowner in Branford said "My entire house shook, followed by what sounded like an explosion."

A witness looking at the destruction from across the river in Portland said the main plant building seemed to have been substantially leveled.

Medical rescue personnel said four of the 100 were injured, four critically, and two were dead at the site of the Kleen Energy Systems plant on River Road.

"There are bodies everywhere," a witness said. Another witness said many victims may be buried in rubble.

Middletown deputy fire marshal Al Santostefano said at 1:15 p.m. there were "confirmed fatalities" but that he did not know who many. He said there were at least 50 construction workers on the site.

Emergency rescue authorities were briefing Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who opened the state's emergency management center. There were at least 100 firefighters on the site at 1:30 p.m. and the fire caused by the explosion had been extinguished. Authorities said there was not further danger to the public.

 

[useless]

First post lol just americans lol

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[emzie]

Yeah, that's a pretty big blast.

First post lol just americans lol

Now I see what fifty meant by [3+1]chan being an awful influence on the world.

 

[Eli]

Dozens of dead, or so I've heard.

 

[useless]

Dozens of dead, or so I've heard.

sounds like a blast, dude

 

[Lillefix]

I know it's VERY wrong of me, but I feel slightly dissapointed it wasn't a nuclear plant and a nuclear explosion.

 

[Earthling]

I cannot endorse people just making fun of this, but at the same time, what is there to discuss? I don't know of a specific precedent/failure of regulations etc... that makes related power plants similarly unsafe. It is a random accident and unfortunate catastrophe but small stuff like this, plane crashes, etc... happen a lot.

Also, nuclear power plants do not "explode" like nuclear bombs do. That's a misconception.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

@useless. What is exactly is funny?

 

[Winner]

I know it's VERY wrong of me, but I feel slightly dissapointed it wasn't a nuclear plant and a nuclear explosion.

Oh Gods no, we need nuclear energy and another accident involving a nuclear power plant would doom EVERYTHING with the word 'nuclear' involved.

 

[MobBoss]

First post lol just americans lol

Is it me or is the 'lol' really in bad taste here?

 

[useless]

Guys, guys. It was just a joke.

 

[JerichoHill]

Horrible joke. Not appropriate.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Party poopers.

 

[useless]

If it wasn't me it would be someone else

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Why would a power plant under construction be already connected to the power source? That's like shipping uranium to an unfinished nuclear plant, or letting water flow through a hydroelectric dam being constructed.

 

[JollyRoger]

I wonder why God is punishing Connecticut.

 

[G-Man]

Why would a power plant under construction be already connected to the power source? That's like shipping uranium to an unfinished nuclear plant, or letting water flow through a hydroelectric dam being constructed.

Looking at google-earth, that plant was there for over 20 years (That's as far back as their imaging goes).

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

So it was already running while being constructed?

 

[ParkCungHee]

I think this means it was under renewed construction.

 

[G-Man]

Actually I was looking at the BBC report now and it said that the plant was only due to go online in the coming summer..