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US fire satellite mapping reported on Sunday August 7, 2016, 16.20 UTC – a little after noon local time, what seems to have been a fire at the H-Area of the Savannah River Nuclear Site.

Note the tree-like shape of the “Par Pond” allowing identification of H-Area as the site of the apparent fire.


Apparent fire area. Note what appears to be piping near the yellow dot.

Fire location exported from: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/index.php SRS icon exported from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_River_Site
Fire area without yellow and rotated to better see piping and more of the building area. Although the dot is on the parking lot, it would seem more likely that the fire would be in the area of the corner pipe or elsewhere, unless it occurred unloading.


Apparent area of fire – note parking lot, fans, chimneys.

H-Canyon seems to be center left with the parking lot-chimneys, etc. of apparent fire to the…