California’s nuclear power plants found to be sitting on top of a massive supervolcano filled with 2

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    even worse news

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    Considering 3 of the 4 largest volcanoes are in the US and 4 of top 7, can you imagine if for instance the san andreas fault really letting go, triggering two or three of them to erupt? Be kissing one helluva lot more than just California goodbye.
     
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    supervolcanoes are a completely unproven threat. I wouldn't worry about them. The most dangerous volcano in the mainland U.S. is Mount Rainier
     
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    What do you mean unproven? Geology kinda proves its a cataclysmic threat. The question isn't if, its when and granted when is subject to what amounts to nothing more than serious scientific wild arsed guesses. The one in the OP apparently is a long long way from having enough "liquid" magma for it to become "active" according to current theory.
     
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    Seems like a legitimate call on the face of it. Their source is “The Clover Chronicle”, a consistently dodgy fake news site and their source is apparently an unvalidated 4chan post!
     
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    I would not want to live in California. It's a fun visit, but I sure would not live there.
     
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    Life is dangerous. Always has been, always will be. Death surrounds the living, always has, always will.
     
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    The existence of the Long Valley supervolcano was discovered a few years ago. Its a fact, but not a foreseeable threat at this point. OTOH, the threat is a cataclysmic on a similar scale to a large asteroid hit.
     
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    Uhhhhh... The geological record is pretty clear they are NOT an unproven threat. Just that the threat is rare in history, but also inevitable at some point.
     
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    I could live in Northern Cali. Its just downright beautiful there. Big Sur is just amazing.
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    Especially if you live near it.
     
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    Wow, we sure build nuclear power plants in bad places.
     
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    How in the hell are super volcanoes an unproven threat?

    A threat that can go tens of thousands of years between events but hardly an unproven threat.
     
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    Yep, this is only coming up on crackpot sites.
     
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    Yep. The meltdown of four nuclear reactors in Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunamis is a good case in point. The cover up of the damage the Fukishima plants have caused, and are still causing, is unbelievable. Every day for eight years now Japan has been dumping 300 tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific. Where I am the Western Pacific beaches are now barren stretches of nothing but sand with no marine life on them except the thousands of dead birds, seals, whales, and porpoises washing up on the shores. There are no star fish, very few gulls when there used to be millions of them, no clams, no sand dollars, no crab--nothing but white seaweed in some places. Fish from the Pacific are contaminated with nuclear radiation, fish stocks are dwindling. Native fish populations have been decimated.


    The nuclear power industry doesn't give a crap about the possibilities of melt down due to natural forces. Its all about the bottom line as usual, and if its cheaper to put a nuke plant on seismically active areas then so be it.
     
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    And of course the warming ocean has nothing to do with that does it?
     
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    Nuclear power, the cheapest, safest, cleanest source of energy known to man, and hated by man’s destroyers, and feared by the unenlightened.

    Fushimi disaster, no deaths due to acute radiation poisoning; no discernible increase in cancer deaths.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster_casualties
     
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    Even worse would be the New Madras fault. I read that it is similar to the fault in Africa where an enormous fracture has opened up and is splitting the continent in two.

    As for volcanoes, Mount Tambora gave us the world without a summer in 1916. Strange that they haven't mentioned Krakatoa. It's believed that Krakatoa is the volcano that might have thrown the world into the dark ages in 536. Then there's Santorini that destroyed the Minoan civilization with a tidal wave and that many consider Atlantis.
     
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    The West Coast is stunning, but right now the worry is the Juan de Fuca fault line outside of Washington State and Oregon. An earthquake is past due and the tidal wave would be devastating - something they weren't aware of until recently when they saw the past records in Japan. They made a study of the recent tidal wave in Japan, and from what I read, they are constructing safe havens for the people along the coast should there be an earthquake and a tidal wave is evident. They're not going to have much time to find safety, the fault line is very close.
     
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    And on that optimistic note ...
     

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