[QUOTE]There have been reports of an explosion of at Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire this afternoon.
A police statement said: "Thames Valley Police officers are currently in attendance at Didcot Power Station dealing with an incident with other emergency services.
"Further information will be released in due course."[/QUOTE]
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[URL="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/didcot-power-station-explosion-emergency-7425777"]Source[/URL]
[Quote]Witnesses have described hearing a loud bang before part of the building collapsed.
Emergency services, including an air ambulance are said to be on the scene.[/quote]
Uhh holy shit
Was just going to post about this, here's a couple more pictures
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Hope everyone is okay.
Before anyone gets majorly worried, the Didcot Power Stations are not nuclear, they are natural gas and coal stations.
Considering the explosion and how its taking part of the building, it sounds like a gas leak went off.
Birds-eye view that was on BBC News.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/JxcvN69.jpg[/t]
I wondered what the army of fire engines, ambulances and police cars driving past my college was today had everyone's attention.
[QUOTE=Chains!;49798920]Birds-eye view that was on BBC News.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/JxcvN69.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.thenational.ae/world/southeast-asia/how-indonesian-mosques-survived-the-tsunami"]
Allah made a miracle yet again[/URL]
[IMG]https://wikiislam.net/wiki/images/2/2a/Indo-mosque-tsunami.jpg[/IMG]
I live about three miles from there, and I didn't hear anything - I'm concerned about the site's safety though since we had a pretty big fire back in 2014 :~:
[editline]23rd February 2016[/editline]
Also I'm not sure but it might have been the decommissioned site, I'm not so sure
The station has been operating for a pretty long time though
Either a boiler gave out or there was a substantial gas leak.
1 Fatality reported so far, site was due for demolition this year but it was not thought to be any planned activity today.
Holy shit, that's a lot of damage. If the site is decommissioned, it's even more surprising that something's gone that horribly wrong.
Live feed if anyone is interested
[url]https://youtu.be/y60wDzZt8yg[/url]
It is the old power station that was decommissioned in 2013, due to be demolished this year but no demolition was planned for today.
Stream gives a better idea from those first photos when the accident happened. Couldn't be gas. They were not ready for the demolition yet either. It [I]could[/I] simply be they they were stripping the structure in preparation and it gave out.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;49798979][URL="http://www.thenational.ae/world/southeast-asia/how-indonesian-mosques-survived-the-tsunami"]
Allah made a miracle yet again[/URL]
[IMG]https://wikiislam.net/wiki/images/2/2a/Indo-mosque-tsunami.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
i dont get it
I've done some construction work on the site and getting up to the old square building featured in the photo is creepy as fuck, it's like being in Chernobyl.
The area is split into Didcot A and Didcot B and the explosion happened at the decommissioned part of the site, probably as a result of the ongoing demolition/recycling operations.
The actual working power plant is on a separate section of the site.
BBC news has [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-35641766"]described it as a "collapse"[/url], reports of an explosion are from members of the public.
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;49799275]i dont get it[/QUOTE]
Why do you still not pray to he who is holy, as a wise man once said
[quote]至聖百字讃
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協助天運
保庇國民
五時祈祐
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存心真主
加志窮民
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道冠古今
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教名清真
穆罕默德
至聖貴人
穆罕默德
清真北寺[/quote]
[editline]23rd February 2016[/editline]
To stay on topic; I pray for their safe recovery.
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