[MR] Fwd: [OT] Quake sensors removed around Virginia nuke plant due to budget cuts

[Roy B. Scherer]

At 08:51 PM 8/23/2011, David Chessler wrote:
>According to the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME), the
>Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory (VTSO) removed all seismographs from
>around the plant in the 1990s due to budget cuts.

Milord -
         I'm not at all sure just how a seismograph would have helped 
today, though  I suppose that one could look at the trace later, and 
confirm that there had indeed been an earthquake.
-- Britton


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