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On 1 July, the spent fuel pool was switched from the water-injection cooling system to a circulatory cooling system. [43] After 2 July, the Reactor was cooled using fresh water treated by the on-site water treatment plant. [43] On 11 January 2012, radioactively contaminated water was found in two tunnels.
October 5, 1913 - A spark from a passing locomotive was blamed for starting a fire, in a 250,000 gallon tank of distillate oil at the San Diego Standard Oil tank yard. As the oil burned it threw sparks skyward, which rained down on several other tanks nearby, igniting them. The fire burned for 2 days. [9]
A fuel tank truck crashed and people gathered at the accident site to collect the fuel. The tank truck exploded, initially burning 60 people to death. Video footage of the incident began circulating on social media, in which many people can be seen collecting fuel in yellow containers and jerrycans. [124]
At 4:39 am, the alkylation unit shift supervisor entered the alkylation unit in firefighting protective bunker gear and manually activated the water pumps to help suppress the release of hydrofluoric acid from the alkylation unit. Residents who lived east of the plant were ordered to shelter in place. The fire burned for over 24 hours before it ...
Hazmat crews at a Marathon petroleum plant worked to contain a fire and chemical leak that forced Louisiana residents within a 2-mile radius of the facility to evacuate their homes, schools and ...
On the northwestern edge of the plant, [1] in a remote utility area, [4] was a 900,000 US gal (3.4-million L) storage tank, measuring about 40 feet (12 m) tall and 62 feet (19 m) in diameter, [11] that temporarily stored wastewater from the plant's propylene oxide and styrene monomer operations. [6]
A gentleman from Erie named John Kanzius made a somewhat "shocking" discovery while he was working on a radio-wave generator he had developed for the treatment of cancer. While attempting to ...
The Ricardo Zuloaga power plant in 2013. Tanks nos. 8 and 9 were located on high ground, behind the main building. At dawn, on Sunday, December 19, 1982, the sea-going tanker Murachi belonging to Maraven, a subsidiary of PDVSA, was moored off the Ricardo Zuloaga power plant in Tacoa and about to unload 15,000 tons of fuel oil, which would be used as fuel for power production.