I heard that some sort of accident happened at the nuclear plant by Red Wing.
I am sure that more will come out as the news crews get there. Some schools closed and Xcel is telling locals to stay inside. Never good news.
Stay safe guys
Ron
River Falls is way too close.
If you hear anything more Ron…POST please! 
They are reporting no Radiation, just a leak.
Xcel Energy confirms that operators at Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant declared an alert at 3:53 a.m. Thursday after workers discovered sodium hypochloride, commonly known as chlorine bleach, leaking from a tank in the screen house. The chemical is used to treat water that is brought into the plant for cooling.
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They are reporting no Radiation
Hopefully they are monitoring that…today! 
Keep it out of the water. I don’t like eating whitefish.
It is a contained chlorine leak. Prescott schools were at first closed than they changed to 2 hrs late. It appears to be under control.
dd
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It is a contained chlorine leak. Prescott schools were at first closed than they changed to 2 hrs late. It appears to be under control.
dd
At the risk of starting an anti nuke rant…which I’m not.
It does put a question in my mind as to why they would originally close the schools, but not notify locals?
My co worker lives between Prescott and Hager City and knew nothing of this.
If it was important enough to close schools, wouldn’t it be important enough to notify the public earlier then 3 hours after it happened??
Just wondering out loud.
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Keep it out of the water. I don’t like eating whitefish.
Love what you did there, very nice!!! 
They had a Homeland security official on FOX9. Prescot/Ellsworth School district were the ones that told everyone to stay indoors and closed then delayed schools. The official report that there was no danger. Prairie Island reported the leak as they should. The schools did this on their own. No other districts or municipalities overreacted. Although its better to be safe than sorry.
Mwal
blown WAY out of porportion!!!!!!!!!!! bleach was spilled is all!! our field guys work that plant and we had no calls for guys to repair anything. in case your wondering i work for the boilermakers union that work these power plant outages and rebuilds!
That’s too bad. Now if there were a real emergency many would hesitate.
They did what they were supposed to with the notification process! We get bulletins from the scholl and they reported all good and it was contained! Just doing what they need to. Good job to those involved. Media you got to love them! 
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blown WAY out of porportion!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s the “Chicken Little–sky is falling” culture we have become. 
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blown WAY out of porportion!!!!!!!!!!!
It was blown way out of proportion BUT I would rather have them report it ASAP then wait till there is radiation spewing out and not hear about it.
Now as for the next Storm of the Century, the media can cut way back on how bad the weather is going to be three-five days from now. I am sick of hearing about how much we could get and then only receive less than an inch of slush.
Ron
hows that different/ 
hey just kiddin, i get it!!! didnt hear that weare getting the storm of the century next week????? 
The worst part of this is that I missed my opportunity to call in and take the day off cuz of it. I could be fishing Pool 4 right now.
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