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Hurricane Sandy
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/us/hurricane-sandy-barrels-region-leaving-battered-path.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 hurricane, emergency, natural disasterOyster Creek nuclear plant can loose power from Hurricane Sandy
"If Oyster Creek were to lose its offsite power, and frankly that’s really likely, there would be no way cool that nuclear fuel that’s in the fuel pool until they get the power reestablished"Los Alamos fire
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - A fast-moving wildfire has broken out in New Mexico and forced officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to close the site Monday as residents nearby evacuate their homes ( Read more... )2011 set to be deadliest tornado year
By 11 a.m. Tuesday, the death toll in Joplin had reached 118, making it the single deadliest tornado since the National Weather Service began keeping such records 61 years ago ( Read more... )