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Aerial Footage of Retaining Wall Failure (Footage from TVA website)

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Uploaded by on Dec 24, 2008

A retaining wall holding 80 acres of flyash failed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston coal-fired power plant early monday morning. 2.6 million cubic yards of fly ash were released and covered 250 to 400 acres with four to six feet of ash. Eleven homes were damaged and evacuated. Thankfully, no injuries or fatalities were reported.

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  • I think it is funny when people always talking about the ash spill being so harmful... well you know i have work at the plants in oakridge and at tva . if you think this is so bad you must have no idea whats in oakridge.. there are places in oakridge that are so hot in radiation it makes this look like silly...pcb and mercury in the lake from oakridge from earlier times your lake fun was never good for you in the first place...so piss on you people that have no idea but think otherwise

  • @pokeyj37846 Do you live on Earth? Here on Earth coal contains "uranium (U), thorium (Th) and their numerous decay products, including radium (Ra) and radon (Rn)." (Radioactive Elements in Coal and Fly Ash, USGS Factsheet)

  • I live like 15 min from here and i did not now this was this bad. The news didn't really do it's job here that looks way bigger than i expected.

  • drill baby drill and burn baby burn... just keep polluting your own backyard america.. your number 1 in the world in pollution, industrial, consumer... hey did anyone think of packing this shit up in containers and sending it to china for processing and then bringing back from china clean dirt. Maybe Haliburton is is watching, dick and bush the great white hope for an uneducated nation, US of A; united states of assholes

  • Talk about ruining my lake fun for the next ten+ years

  • @pokeyj37846

    Coal is radioactive... It has Uranium in it.. Thats why the yearly background radiation is higher near coal power plants then surrounding area's.. Look it up... Coal has alot of heavy metals in it not just Uranium..

    The water there is poisoned forever. This like Chernobyle on a smaller scale, coal isnt clean or safe.. In fact Nuclear power is alot safer and way way cleaner..

  • clean coal anyone ?

    What a joke..

  • @eluviation  coal is'nt radioactive.

  • I think about that too I am in highschool at roane county high or kingstom hogh which everone you wanna call it. i just got my car ia m 16 i hope it doesnt break

  • Your right they dont. I ive right by it. I live in kingston I pass this on the way to the highschoo everymorning. I go to school there lol

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