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Computer problem causes nuclear reactor shut-down

Pa. nuclear reactor shut down after computer system problem discovered, The Republic, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS November 09, 2012   BERWICK, Pa. — One of two reactors at a northeastern Pennsylvania nuclear plant was shut down Friday morning after a problem with the computer system that controls its level of water, power company officials said.

The Unit 2 reactor at PPL’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant was manually shut down by operators after operators began receiving “invalid data” on a screen, company spokesman Joe Scopelliti said….. http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/9b8f86ecd78f4764b1095c5902c4addc/PA–Reactor-Shutdown

November 10, 2012 Posted by | incidents, USA | Leave a comment

UK ‘child abuse’ allegations “these revelations are only the tip of the iceberg”

 “we know here at NAPAC, that there are more names to come that will shock the nation.. ” (Video)
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Amina Taylor, Press TV, London
Fri Nov 9, 2012
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It is a trickle that’s become a flood. The public were aghast at the sheer breadth and scale of the allegations of wrong-doing perpetrated against children, some as young as eight years old.

But there was more to come. UK PM David Cameron has been dragged into the abuse row after it emerged senior Conservatives from Margaret Thatcher’s administration have been named as abusers at the Bryn Estyn children’s home in north Wales. An inquiry 18 years ago looking into allegations of abuse was deemed a ‘whitewash’ after victims say it did not go far enough.

Peter Saunders is from the National Association of People Abused in Childhood. He says these revelations are only the tip of the iceberg.

The number of inquiries looking at allegations of sexual abuse and the failure to deal with them appropriately by the authorities – both in north Wales and in the Jimmy Savile case- has entered double figures.

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