Earthquakes in Europe

[legendz]

Italy and Bulgaria affected in recent days. Bulgaria's nuclear plant which lies about 200 kilometres north of the epicentre.Surely a good reason against nuclear power stations as experienced in Japan?

[peadar1987]

Italy and Bulgaria affected in recent days. Bulgaria's nuclear plant which lies about 200 kilometres north of the epicentre.Surely a good reason against nuclear power stations as experienced in Japan?

Any new nuclear plants are seismically qualified, and even the old ones aren't going to do anything too dramatic if they're hit by an earthquake in isolation. It wasn't the earthquake that did for Fukushima, it was the tsunami.

There are still risks with nuclear power, but compared with, say, the risk of climate change, oil spills, or coal mining, I think they're very small. And we have to keep the lights on somehow.

[Macy]

Surely a good reason against nuclear power stations as experienced in Japan?

Fukushima was done for by the tsumami, not the actual earthquake. Also, earthquakes aren't that rare in that region of Europe, so I would think it was taken into account in the building.

[Eminence Grise]

One off the west coast of Mayo this morning, measuring 4.0.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...reaking22.html

Apparently it was caused by the simultaneous smack of hands to foreheads by several thousand yes voters in Enda's constituency, suddenly arriving at the realisation that Germany doesn't give a f*** about them one way or another....

[peadar1987]

One off the west coast of Mayo this morning, measuring 4.0.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...reaking22.html

Apparently it was caused by the simultaneous smack of hands to foreheads by several thousand yes voters in Enda's constituency, suddenly arriving at the realisation that Germany doesn't give a f*** about them one way or another....

They will when we knock them out of the Euros!

[Eminence Grise]

They will when we knock them out of the Eurozone!

Fixed that for you!