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Legendary Singer + Play Records Owner MELLEEFRESH Celebrates 25 Years With Stunning Year Ahead
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Simply put: rarely do you come across a globally heralded, multi-award winning female veteran of the music industry who continues to be a ground-breaking, ceiling-shattering revolutionary in all she does for three decades, and counting.
But such is the case for Canadian electronic music scene queen Melleefresh as she toasts her landmark and visionary 25 year tenure helming Play Records — and even longer as a veritable artistic force to be reckoned with in her own right.
Deemed "one of the pivotal figures in North American dance music" by Clash Magazine, the Toronto-based EDM dynamo has been a prominent avant-garde performance artist for the last 30 years.
Linked above are 16+ pages of deeply entrenched, wildly fascinating Canadian industry lore (think crossover tales of: deadmau5, Kevin Hearn pre-Barenaked Ladies, Peaches, Atom Egoyan, The Tragically Hip, Fashion Cares, an arrested 'Care Bear' on the front page of The Sun…)
And yet, the candid collection barely scratches the surface of the insightful tales this iconic artist and businesswoman can speak to.
As President and founder of the Play Records — the one through which deadmau5 was discovered and first signed to, and who she collaborated with as freshmau5 on many tracks, including the 2008 JUNO Award-nominated release, After Hours — Melleefresh has also collaborated with, including Dirty 30 (Alixander III), Billy Newton-Davis, Calvertron, Hoxton Whores, 40oz Profits, Gettoblasters, Jerome Robins, dj genderfluid, and more. She is an inimitable reference point for the cut-throat, competitive intersection that is music, business, and being a woman in the thick of it all.
"I had begun writing and singing my own music, and decided at one point I wanted to do more," she recalls. "But what I really wanted was to be able to control my own music, and maybe form a label.
"One of my first labels, Nepotism Records, had a motto of 'Family, Friends, or F*** Off,'" she continues. "I guess I do continue to work more with people I know, but I have not had any major f*** offs!
"That said, it's been a lot of ups and downs," she continues, reflecting back. "There have been some battles… Some ridiculous lawsuits… And also some amazing collaborations and performances.
"To this day, I find the constant search for new talent to work with has always been so exciting! That, and to develop new genres of music.
"I am continually evolving as an artist, and always trying out new vocals and musical styles with every different artist I work with. It's been such a great discovery process, both creatively and from a business perspective…
"I love the evolution of it all!"
Mellefresh's extensive credits, accolades, and rungs on her resume continue to soar sky-high; never idle, she releases new music frequently — including her latest LP, Invincible, and a special series of Redux re-issues slated for this celebratory year.
She is also the co-founder of Play Deep, a state-of-the-art recording studio in London, England, with DJ Spydabrown (Zachary Spider Brown-Smith). There, they have played host to recording sessions for the likes of The Spice Girls, Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora, Chance the Rapper, Childish Gambino, Nadia Rose, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Gigs, Offset, and more.
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Darjeeling Himalayan Railway experience
Ghum, a small village in the Darjeeling Himalayan region is about 6km from the Darjeeling town. Even though trip to Ghum is always combined with Darjeeling, it has its own fair share of tourist attractions with its historic monasteries and hilltops offering scenic views. Ghum Railway station is the highest railway station in India (3rd highest in Asia) at an altitude of 2258 meters.
The joy ride in the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is a trip back and fro from the Darjeeling station and Ghum station with time duration of two hours with its first trip starting at 8am. Moving along with the main road midst the vehicular traffic, shops and houses, the train passes some of the very steep curves and turns giving us a beautiful view of the valleys of Darjeeling. However, due to the heavy rains we were not lucky enough to get a clear view of the mountains.
Scenic view from the train
After about 5 kms from Darjeeling the train spirals around a tunnel and a garden making a 360-degree turn and stops for 10 minutes at Batasia Loop. On a clear day one can get a magnificent view of the Kanchenjunga and the eastern Himalayan Mountains.
The Toy Train
Like kids in a candy store we rushed out of the train to have a glimpse of the Himalayan Mountains but instead we were greeted with the fog. Nevertheless we made a quick tour of the War Memorial, which was built at Batasia in the memory of the brave Gorkha soldiers of the Darjeeling region who laid their lives for the country.
The War Memorial
The Eco Garden at Batasia Loop
The train then continues the journey towards Ghum station where we were given about 30 minutes to explore around the station. The station has a Rail Museum on the first floor, which provides us insights on the history of the Himalayan Railway since the British era. In 1999, UNESCO declared DHR as a World Heritage Site, second railway in the world to be granted this honor.
Ghum Station
UNESCO World Heritage Site declaration
Collection of DHR Tickets at the museum
Bell display at Ghum Museum
Baby Sivok- The oldest DHR train
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Ankeet says:
Good travel information. You guys should start your own tours after you are done exploring. It will help others experience what you guys have felt.
2travellingsisters says:
Thank you fr the suggestion Ankeet. We would love to provide assistance to others in their travels once we have gained the experience.:)
Ur stories are creating interest in me to travel , even though im not travel freak .great work …
Thank u Swathi.. We are glad that you are inspired to travel after reading our stories 🙂
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A study by the Emergency Nurses Association conducted in 2011 indicated that 55 percent of emergency nurses reported an experience with verbal abuse or physical violence within the week prior to being questioned for the study. Another 25 percent of nurses reported being the victims of frequent physical violence in the previous three years.
Avera Queen of Peace Hospital, located in Mitchell, S.D., a member of the Avera Healthcare System, consists of a large family of hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities and home health/hospice agencies in eastern South Dakota and neighboring states. This 120-bed hospital employs roughly 620 staff members and is dedicated to providing quality healthcare services to the rural communities of southeastern South Dakota.
Based on industry studies similar to the one mentioned here, this hospital places a high degree of importance on employee safety and has expanded its mobile duress system to create a safer workplace environment for its healthcare professionals.
Located in Louisville, Colo., Inovonics makes people protection systems and high-performance wireless sensor networks for commercial and life-safety applications. For the past 15 years, Avera Queen of Peace Hospital has used the Inovonics' Vision Plus security panel and accompanying Inovonics life-safety, wireless infrastructure.
For the first generation Vision Plus installation, the locations of the mobile duress alarms were "registered" into the system so that a staff member could sign out a pendant assigned to a specific area in the hospital where he or she would be located during their shift. If a duress call went out, the corresponding location would be tied to the pendant's registered location, even if the employee was located in a different area. The original system was implemented over a small portion of the hospital, and alarm alerts were delivered to a central monitoring station, allowing coverage of about 75,000 square feet of the hospital.
With limited coverage, many areas of the hospital were left vulnerable. For example, a panic button programmed only for the ICU protected staff members in that area. In the event that an incident occurred en route to the ICU or in the waiting room, the pendant would prompt security to the ICU rather than to the location where the incident actually occurred. Eventually, the hospital realized that it needed a new system that would cover the entire hospital and surrounding grounds. The ideal solution would provide location capability that corresponded to a staff member's whereabouts as they moved in and around the facility, which they do naturally as part of their daily responsibilities.
Providing the pinpointed location for the person in distress, Radius quickly notifies responders of the location, making Radius' EMD location capabilities the type of system Vilhauer needed. The system, however, is not based on GPS technology, which is known to be inadequate in indoor environments, but relies on a secure wireless network and server to process location information from panic buttons, monitor other information from the Inovonics wireless network and coordinate notification of the pertinent information.
If a panic button were to be activated at Avera Queen of Peace Hospital, the signal would automatically be transmitted to Radius, which would then process and locate the position of the event, immediately alert the appropriate response team and direct them to where help is needed.
In order to ensure complete protection for hospital employees, Radius needed to cover approximately 300,000 square feet of the facility. The equipment included a Radius server with a voice card, two voice ports, a radio interface, 36 repeaters, 20 panic buttons and 10 universal transmitters. The server was installed directly onto Avera Queen of Peace's network with one voice port connected to the radio interface and the second voice port connected to its phone system, which also interfaces to voice pagers and the VoIP system.
Multiple repeaters were installed on each story of the building to ensure location accuracy; however, Vilhauer stressed the importance of being thorough when placing the repeaters in appropriate locations. Therefore, prior to the actual installation, Inovonics assisted Vilhauer in conducting a site survey using a demonstrator repeater and panic buttons that allowed Vilhauer and his team to map out the coverage areas and determine where each repeater should be located to ensure optimal coverage. This part of the installation helped to guarantee that when a panic button is pushed, the right location is identified.
Mobile panic buttons were assigned to staff members along with fixed, universal transmitters installed in walk-in cooling units with fixed panic buttons. Additionally, fixed panic buttons were located in the pharmacy, at the nuclear accelerator and in the emergency room. These panic buttons ensure reliable data transmission to a range of hospital staff and timely response during emergency situations.
If a nurse experiences problems without help nearby, he or she simply pushes the button, and security and plant operations are instantly paged with a code name that identifies the emergency. Radius sends the same code to the Avera Queen of Peace emergency hotline, prompting attendants to page security and plant operations. A voice message is sent across two-way radios to 24-hour security, plant operations and the admitting staff.
Radius also allows the hospital to expand the coverage of the duress system beyond the main hospital building to outlying clinics and parking lots.
Since implementing the Radius EMDS, Avera Queen of Peace Hospital has been extremely pleased with the results. The most critical benefit is the hospital's ability to locate pendants anywhere on the hospital campus, even outside of the building. This is a 75 percent increase in coverage from the original installation. According to Vilhauer, the staff, especially those who work overnight, now feel more at ease knowing that the pendants can determine their location anywhere in the hospital, instead of only in designated areas.


Note: Not available -being updated as a result of jurisprudence and Bill C-65, an act to amend the Canada Labour Code that changes the existing framework for the prevention of harassment and violence in the workplace.
In the last few years, there have been many legal developments on harassment and violence in the workplace, including the adoption of Bill C-65 in October 2018.
Following consultations with experts from employer and bargaining agents on the objectives and learning activities, the JLP is developing a workshop that will reflect the new legal landscape.
The new workshop will cover warning signs, risk factors and the impact of harassment and violence. It will examine the new Canada Labour Code health and safety provisions on harassment and violence, the human rights framework under the Canadian Human Rights Act, and other relevant laws, policies and collective agreement provisions.
The roles and responsibilities of the employer, the union and employees in the workplace will be discussed.
Participants will explore how diversity and inclusion, civility and respect, psychological health and safety, a gender-based analysis and Truth and Reconciliation can foster a safer and healthier workplace for all.
Finally, participants will explore how they can deal with harassment when it occurs in their workplace. The new workshop will be piloted in early 2019.
Stay tuned for the new workshop scheduled to be launched in April 2019. More details to follow in the coming months.


When the results started to trickle in last night, the first update, somewhere around 10pm, put him in the lead. But that represented just a few hundred votes out of over 100,000. After two more updates, the Mayor's lead had disappeared, and the celebration breaking out Vincent Gray's evening headquarters at the Washington Court Hotel on Capitol Hill was raucous. The tone had been set with just 12,000 ballots counted, and none of it looked good for Adrian Fenty. In the end, Gray would take an eight point lead that put it all out of reach.
At the end of the evening, the results appeared on a hastily written webpage, and Mayor Adrian Fenty conceded to Council Chair Vincent Gray. Unless Fenty accepts the GOP's nomination, something I believe would be deeply unwise, this is the end of Mayor Fenty. Many will cheer that message, in all of the wards of the District, due to Fenty's abrasive style, his laser-like focus on results alone. Fenty was notoriously bad with the local media, said Erik Wemple of TBD.com, and says that Fenty's distrust of the media may come back to haunt him in the coming days as we tear apart this election piece by piece to figure out what all happened.
Gray was the only challenger to be successful last night, in a late evening of results delayed by counting problems at DCBOEE HQ. New procedures meant some confusion for election workers, and some issues with polling sites at the open of the day meant for some difficult situations first thing in the morning. Procedures were lined up for those situations in which you could not access either their optical scan machine or the single touchscreen voting machine in each polling place, but seemed not to be followed by precinct captains. A court battled waged until the last minute to extend voting hours past the 8pm deadline.
We'll know more about how the vote breaks down in the coming days as DCBOEE fixes the website issues that cropped up late last night but the early results suggested that Wards 2 and 3 had largely gone Fenty, while Wards 5-8 had largely gone Gray. I know that in our Ward 5 precinct (70, East Brookland), Gray won by a 4:1 margin.
I'm hopeful we'll start to see some public shows of support from Gray for a few Fenty appointees, including Cathy Lanier as Chief of Police, and Gabe Klein as director of DDOT, as we get through the next couple of weeks. We'll start to get an idea soon, I imagine, for what the Democratic nominee has in mind for his new administration throughout the next couple weeks.


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Anderson .Paak – Oxnard (2018)
Label: Aftermath Entertainment, OBE, 12Tone Music
01. The Chase
02. Headlow
03. Tints
04. Who R U?
05. 6 Summers
06. Saviers Road
07. Smile/Petty
08. Mansa Musa
09. Brother's Keeper
10. Anywhere
11. Trippy
12. Cheers
13. Sweet Chick
14. Left To Right
With its languid pace and sunstruck mix of hedonism and tragedy, Los Angeles has always had a powerful and enduring relationship with funk music. The onset of G-funk in the '90s channeled the whining synthesizer experiments of Zapp and Parliament Funkadelic into something sepulchral and nihilistic and, in doing so, defined parameters for L.A. Funk. And now, you can hear Parliament-by-way-of-Dr. Dre in the music of Thundercat, Dâm-Funk, Terrace Martin, and Dre's own Aftermath Records artist, Anderson Paak.
On Oxnard, Paak's follow-up to his 2016 breakthrough Malibu, the rapping, singing, and drumming polymath approaches funk from a rap perspective. When Paak allows himself to be instinctive and loose, Oxnard blends these influences with a comforting ease. Cloaked in natty threads and a horndog ladies-man persona, he favors bubbling bass, silky textures, and sunset timbres, forever somewhere between Snoop Dogg's "G'z Up, Hoes Down" and Bootsy Collins' "I'd Rather Be With You." In that richly instrumented, sometimes misogynistic, and sexually debauched space, Paak has enough leeway to showcase his versatility as a vocalist.
In the best possible way, Paak has a voice like '80s R&B singer El DeBarge after a pack of cigarettes. Though Paak doesn't have DeBarge's piercing falsetto, his pitched-up, suggestive rasp is apt for a self-styled lothario. Throughout Oxnard, he exalts blowjobs and carps about a "petty bitch" and, on "Sweet Chick," has sex with a skater who "watches anime while [he's] laying dick." Even his vaguely political song, "6 Summers," opens with artless wish-casting: "Trump's got a love child/And I hope that bitch is buckwild/[...] I hope she kiss señoritas and black gals." Individually, his moments of hetero-masculine bluster are mostly passable—"Sweet Chick" is particularly enjoyable—but, in aggregate, they seem like a sock stuffed down the front of his jeans.
Torii MacAdams / Pitchfork
Labels: Anderson .Paak, Oxnard
Japan – Tin Drum (1981) (2003 Remastered)
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop
Label: Virgin, The Town Huse
1-1 The Art Of Parties
1-2 Talking Drum
1-3 Ghosts
1-4 Canton
1-5 Still Life In Mobile Homes
1-6 Visions Of China
1-7 Sons Of Pioneers
1-8 Cantonese Boy
Bonus Disc
2-1 The Art Of Parties (Single Version)
2-2 Life Without Buildings
2-3 The Art Of Parties (Live)
2-4 Ghosts (Single Version)
Despite taking its title from a German novel ('twas ever thus with the literary references for singer, David Sylvian), Tin Drum remains Japan's most Eastern-influenced album. It's all there in the song titles of course. This, their final effort, showed the band really becoming what they'd always wanted to be all through their career: An art-rock band, with aspirations towards the musicianly end of what pop could aspire to (and, aptly, a huge fanbase in their spiritual home of the Orient). Ironically as the band disintegrated (mainly due to Sylvian's urge to strike out alone) following this release,they finally shook off the sub-Roxy Music/glam goth associations that had hampered them in earlier years.
One of the reasons that Tin Drum broke the band out of their image straightjacket (for which they were in no small part responsible, due to their propensity for make up and fey tailoring) was the departure of guitarist, Rob Dean, after the previous album, Gentlemen Take Polaroids. Moving away from the rockist trappings of six-strings, and hanging out with The Yellow Magic Orchestra's Ryuichi Sakamoto had shown the band the light. With Richard Barbieri's spectral keyboards taking the high ground, aided by the almost fusionist tones of Mick Karn's fretless bass and Steve Jansen's masterfully polyrhythmic drums, Tin Drum is, in places wonderfully minimalist and exotically esoteric.
On top of this Sylvian's voice had matured beyond the aforementioned Ferry-lite comparisons. His mournful deep-throated trills suited songs that explored lost love (Ghosts) and the fascination with all things Eastern (the amazingly deft Visions Of China, Canton and Cantonese Boy). As with fellow so-called new romantics, Duran Duran, these boys almost straddled the line marked 'muso', yet avoided crassness with the simple application of taste. Tin Drum has no flashy waste or needless bombast, just evocative skill that remains fresh to this day.
Labels: David Sylvian, Japan, Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri, Steve Jansen, Tin Drum
Japan – Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980) (2006 Remastered)
Label: Caroline Blue Plate, Virgin
01. Gentlemen Take Polaroids
02. Swing
03. Burning Bridges
04. My New Career
05. Methods Of Dance
06. Ain't That Peculiar
07. Nightporter
08. Taking Islands In Africa
09. The Experience Of Swimming
10. The Width Of A Room
11. Taking Islands In Africa (Steve Nye Remix)
After making two albums in the vein of typical post-punk and one synthpop/post-punk crossover, Japan successfully created their own and unique music. Comparing Gentlemen Take Polaroids to other artists of the same time is quite hard, because I've failed to hear anything remotely resembling this. While having sung in a punk-ish David Bowie style on previous records (except for Quiet Life), frontman and singer David Sylvian swapped his earlier singing voice to baritone, making the music sound more mature than ever. Growing up and becoming more mature applies to the music as well. Average song length is longer, greater instrumental diversity, and the lyrics are deeper and better than ever before. Even though David was only 22 at the time of recording and despite being in the music business for merily 3 years, he is very confident and targeted. Knowing his musical capabilities, and acting as band's sole song writer, David knows exactly what kind of music he wants to create.
Kicking the album off with the strong title track, it's easy to point out how he has progressed in just over a year. Guitars no longer rely on power chords, but rather play in the background, with quirky synths and interesting fretless bass becoming more apparent. The title track is a dynamic masterpiece alternating between the experimental, free-floating middle parts, and the casual pop chorus found throughout the song. As for as diversity goes, it might actually alienate some listeners. At times, you can draw paralells between the works of minimalist artists like Brian Eno. Burning Bridges is by far the strangest track on the album, refraining from the likes of rock almost completely, but instead focusing on creating a strange atmosphere, utilizing a wide variety of synths and recording techniques. An important element to the album's quirkyness is bassist Mick Karn's fretless bass playing. It's often played in a way that almost sounds anti-catchy. The basslines are for the most part independent, and they give off a totally freaky, psychedelic vibe. However, it perfectly fits the music because of its strangeness.
Furthermore, David has enough brain to lay off with the whacky sound, and instead deliver some very pretty ballads. Both Methods of Dance and Nightporter stand out as top notch tracks. Both are seven minutes in length, and don't fail to impress the listener in any way. Methods of Dance follow the title track's song structure, with similar elements such as the synth. However, it is much more melodic, with David singing in a much more passionate way and sharing the chorus with a female background vocalist. Nightporter on the other hand sticks out from the other songs completely. It doesn't contain any bass or drums, only vocals, piano, synth and additional woodwind and string instruments. Nightporter is the ultimate "looking out of the window while it's raining outside" song, reeking with sadness, but also beauty.
In short, this album is strange, but good. Recommending it to everyone would be a pretty crazy thing to do, because it might be a bit hard to swallow for some listeners. Nonetheless, the album's strange sound shrouds the real element behind it: the grace. In every song, you always find moments that you can savour. If you like broadening your horizons, this album is perfect for you. Approach with an open mind.
smaugman / sputnik music
Labels: David Sylvian, Gentlemen Take Polaroids, Japan, Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri, Steve Jansen
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The 1999 Blayais Nuclear Power Plant flood was a flood that took place on the evening of December 27, 1999. It was caused when a combination of the tide and high winds from the extratropical storm Martin led to the seawalls of the Blayais Nuclear Power Plant in France being overwhelmed. The event resulted in the loss of the plant's off-site power supply and knocked out several safety-related systems, resulting in a Level 2 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The incident illustrated the potential for flooding to damage multiple items of equipment throughout a plant, weaknesses in safety measures, systems and procedures, and resulted in fundamental changes to the evaluation of flood risk at nuclear power plants and in the precautions taken. It was in some sense a forerunner of the 2011 Fukushima I nuclear accidents in Japan, but did not trigger the worldwide protection work on low-lying plants that the latter would.

Background
The Blayais plant, equipped with four pressurized water reactors, is located on the Gironde estuary near Blaye, South Western France, and is operated by Électricité de France. Due to records of over 200 floods along the estuary dating back to 585 AD, some 40 of which had been particularly extensive, the location of the plant was known to be susceptible to flooding, and reports of the 1875 floods mentioned that they were caused by a combination of a high tides and violent winds blowing along the axis of the estuary. The area had also experienced flooding during storms in the recent past, on December 13, 1981 and March 18, 1988. An official report on the 1981 floods, published in 1982, noted that it 'would be dangerous to underestimate' the combined effects of tide and storm, and also noted that the wind had led to 'the formation of real waves on the lower flooded floodplain'.

When the Blayais plant was designed in the 1970s, it was on the basis that a height of  above NGF level would provide an 'enhanced safety level', and the base on which the plant was built was set at  above NGF, although some components were located in basements at lower levels. The protective sea walls around the Blayais plant were originally built to be  above NGF level at the front of the site, and  along the sides. The 1998 annual review of plant safety for the plant identified the need for the sea walls to be raised to  above NGF, and envisaged that this would be carried out in 2000, although EDF later postponed the work until 2002. On 29 November 1999, the Regional Directorate for Industry, Research and the Environment sent a letter to EDF asking them to explain this delay.

Flooding
On December 27, 1999, a combination of the incoming tide and exceptionally high winds produced by Storm Martin caused a sudden rise of water in the estuary, flooding parts of the plant. The flooding began at around 7:30 pm, two hours before high tide, and it was later found that at its height the water had reached between  and  above NGF. The flooding also damaged the sea wall facing the Gironde, with the upper portion of the rock armour being washed away.

Prior to the flooding, units 1, 2 and 4 were at full power, while unit 3 was shut down for refuelling. Starting from 7:30 pm all four units lost their 225 kV power supplies, while units 2 and 4 also lost their 400 kV power supplies. The isolator circuits that should have allowed units 2 and 4 to supply themselves with electricity also failed, causing these two reactors to automatically shut down, and diesel backup generators started up, maintaining power to plants 2 and 4 until the 400 kV supply was restored at around 10:20 pm. In the pumping room for unit 1, one set of the two pairs of pumps in the Essential Service Water System failed due to flooding; had both sets failed then the safety of plant would have been endangered. In both units 1 and 2, flooding in the fuel rooms put the low-head safety injection pumps and the containment spray pumps, part of the Emergency Core Cooling System (a back-up system in case of coolant loss) out of use. Over the following days, an estimated  of water would be pumped out of the flooded buildings.

Response

Around two and a half hours after the flooding began, a high-tide alarm for the estuary was triggered in the observation room of plant 4, although those in the other plants failed to activate. This should have caused the control room operators to launch a 'Level 2 Internal Emergency Plan', however this was not done as the requirement had been omitted from the operation room manual; instead they continued to follow the procedure for the loss of the off-site power supply, so failing to shut down the operating reactors at the earliest opportunity to allow the decay heat to start to dissipate. At 3:00 am on December 28, the power plant's emergency teams were called to reinforce the staff already on site; at 6:30 the management of the Institute for Nuclear Protection and Safety (now part of the Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute) were informed, and a meeting of experts was convened at the IPSN at 7:45 am. At 9:00 am the Level 2 Internal Emergency Plan was finally activated by the Directorate of Nuclear Installation Safety (now the Nuclear Safety Authority) and a full emergency management team of 25 people was formed, working in shifts around the clock. At noon on December 28, the incident was provisionally rated at 'level 1' on the International Nuclear Event Scale before being reclassified at 'level 2' the following day. The team was scaled back during December 30, and stood down around 6 pm the same day.

During the morning of December 28, the Institute for Nuclear Protection and Safety estimated that, if the emergency cooling water supply failed, there would have been over 10 hours in which to act before core meltdown started.

On 5 January, the regional newspaper Sud-Ouest ran the following headline without being contradicted: "Very close to a major accident", explaining that a catastrophe had been narrowly avoided.

A report on a number of samples taken after the flooding on January 8 and 9 found that the event had had no quantifiable effect on radiation levels.

Aftermath
The Institute for Nuclear Protection and Safety issued a report on January 17, 2000, calling for a review of the data used to calculate the height of the surface on which nuclear power stations are built. It suggested that two criteria should be met: that buildings containing equipment important for safety should be built on a surface at least as high as the highest water level plus a safety margin (the cote majorée de sécurité or 'enhanced safety height'), and that any such buildings below this level should be sealed to prevent water ingress. It also contained an initial analysis which found that, in addition to Blayais, the plants as Belleville, Chinon, Dampierre, Gravelines and Saint-Laurent were all below the 'enhanced safety height' and that their safety measures should be re-examined. It also found that although the plants at Bugey, Cruas, Flamanville, Golfech, Nogent, Paluel, Penly and Saint-Alban met the first criterion, the second should be verified; and called for the plants at Fessenheim and Tricastin to be re-examined since they were below the level of major adjacent canals. The consequent upgrading work, implemented over the following years, is estimated to have cost approximately 110,000,000 euro.

In Germany, the flooding prompted the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety to order an evaluation of the German nuclear power plants.

Following the events at Blayais, a new method of evaluating flood risk was developed. Instead of evaluating only the five factors required by Rule RFS I.2.e (river flood, dam failure, tide, storm surge and tsunami), a further eight factors are now also evaluated: waves caused by wind on the sea; waves caused by wind on river or channel; swelling due to the operation of valves or pumps; deterioration of water retaining structures (other than dams); circuit or equipment failure; brief and intense rainfall on site; regular and continuous rainfall on site; and rises in groundwater. In addition, realistic combinations of such factors are taken into account.

Among the remedial actions taken at Blayais itself, the sea walls were raised to  above NFG, – up to  higher than before – and openings have been sealed to prevent water ingress.

Protests
Twelve days prior to the floods, a local anti-nuclear group was formed by Stéphane Lhomme under the TchernoBlaye banner (a portmanteau of the French spelling of Chernobyl and Blaye, the nearest town). The group gained support following the flood and their first protest march of between 1,000 and 1,500 people took place on April 23, but was blocked from reaching the plant by police using tear gas. The group continue their opposition to the plant, still under the presidency of Stéphane Lhomme.

Ongoing concerns
The remedial works are believed to now adequately protect the plant from flooding, but the access roadway remains low-lying and vulnerable. Due to this, particularly since the 2011 Fukushima I nuclear accidents in Japan, concerns have been raised over the potential difficulty of getting help to the plant in an emergency.

The seawalls at Blayais are now higher than the tsunami that hit Japan, knocking out the cooling systems at Fukushima Dai-ichi. The adequacy of the sea walls has, however, been disputed by Professor Jean-Noël Salomon, head of the Laboratory of Applied Physical Geography at Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3. He believes that, due to the potential harm and economic cost that would result from a future flood-related disaster, the sea walls should be designed to withstand simultaneous extreme events, rather than simultaneous major events.

See also

Fukushima I nuclear accidents
Nuclear power in France
Nuclear safety
List of civilian nuclear accidents
List of civilian nuclear incidents
Risk assessment

References

1999 floods in Europe
1999 in France
Civilian nuclear power accidents
Floods in France
Gironde
Nuclear power in France
Nuclear safety in France
1999 industrial disasters
1999 natural disasters


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Das US-amerikanische Gesetz Presidential Records Act (PRA), gezeichnet 1978 von Jimmy Carter, schreibt dem Präsidenten und dem Vizepräsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten vor, dass jede Korrespondenz archiviert und für die Nachwelt aufgehoben werden muss. Darunter fällt auch die private Korrespondenz.

Im Februar 2022 wurde bekannt, dass Präsident Trump mehrfach gegen dieses Gesetz verstoßen haben soll, indem er Dokumente in der Toilette heruntergespült haben soll, was Verstopfungen verursacht habe. Außerdem habe er Unterlagen zerrissen im Büro liegen lassen und kistenweise in sein Privatanwesen nach Florida verbringen lassen, darunter insbesondere Schreiben des nordkoreanischen Machthabers Kim Jong-un.

Weblinks
 Bush White House e-mail controversy
 Presidential Records im U.S. National Archives

Einzelnachweise

Rechtsquelle (Vereinigte Staaten)
Rechtsquelle (20. Jahrhundert)