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Cracks found at Hunterston nuclear power station
New cracks have been found in one of the reactors at the Hunterston B nuclear power station in Ayrshire, the BBC has learned.
The plant's operator, EDF Energy, has insisted the cracking was predicted to occur as the station ages.
The firm said the issue would not affect the safe operation of the reactor.
But anti-nuclear campaigners said it highlighted a potential problem for similar reactors around the UK.
The cracks were found during a routine inspection which began in August.
Two of about 3,000 graphite bricks in the core of reactor four at Hunterston are affected.
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Cracks found at Hunterston nuclear power station
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Radiation will kill Ebola.
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Nuke Africa from orbit! It's the only way to be sure...rEvolutionist wrote:Radiation will kill Ebola.
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A nurse in Spain has contracted Ebola now. Need to nuke Spain too.JimC wrote:Nuke Africa from orbit! It's the only way to be sure...rEvolutionist wrote:Radiation will kill Ebola.
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Nuke Madrid. Spain will look after itself....Clinton Huxley wrote:A nurse in Spain has contracted Ebola now. Need to nuke Spain too.JimC wrote:Nuke Africa from orbit! It's the only way to be sure...rEvolutionist wrote:Radiation will kill Ebola.
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One assumes the Spanish nurse was a stupid Spanish nurse, unaware of masks, gowns, gloves, and other infection control procedures. Otherwise one might be tempted to believe the authorities haven't been completely honest about exactly what transmission vectors are involved in the spread of the disease. Of course this is nonsense, because Our Governments love us and would never, ever, ever, not in a million billion years, lie like a cheap knock-off Persian rug to cover their own asses.
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Uranium: it's not what it's cracked up to be.
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...all the smart nurses in Africa and Spain or anywhere else poor have been bought up by the NHS leaving only the really thick who'll act as super-spreaders to cater for the Ebola patients.... 
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"They're about 40 years old and there's definitely a problem with the cracking in the graphite blocks that one nuclear engineer has described as gambling with public safety."
Citation missing.
Citation missing.
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... and then invade from Gibraltar?Clinton Huxley wrote:A nurse in Spain has contracted Ebola now. Need to nuke Spain too.JimC wrote:Nuke Africa from orbit! It's the only way to be sure...rEvolutionist wrote:Radiation will kill Ebola.
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Tero wrote:Uranium: it's not what it's cracked up to be.
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Re: Cracks found at Hunterston nuclear power station
What if it was crack found at nuclear power station.
Would that be better, or worse?
Would that be better, or worse?
While there is a market for shit, there will be assholes to supply it.
Re: Cracks found at Hunterston nuclear power station
If in a sensitive area, that would definitely be worse.
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