Citation Needed - Energy Accidents

Episode Date: March 1, 2023

Energy resources bring with them great social and economic promise, providing financial growth for communities and energy services for local economies. However, the infrastructure which delivers energy services can break down in an energy accident, sometimes causing considerable damage. Energy fatalities can occur, and with many systems deaths will happen often, even when the systems are working as intended. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here.  Be sure to check our website for more details.

Okay, uh, what about when people soften butter by just like putting a jar over it? Does that make you mad? No, man. I don't get mad how people like Store their food. What does make you mad? I don't know Racism you're a boring person Cecil you boring Huh light switch is broken. No, no, it's not it's not No, are you in here? Yep, Ethan Tom. Hey, no, it's not. It's not. No, are you in here? Yep, Ethan Dompt. Hey, he's a little cool.

Why are you guys sitting in there with the lights off? Also, why is it so dark in here? Oh, we bought those blackout curtains because of how often Eli gets naked, you remember? Oh, now that you mentioned it, yes, I do remember that, no? Yes. I get itchy. Now, no, the blackout is for this week's episode about energy accidents. Reading over all these stories, maybe think about how you know, we take things like power for granted so often, you know, maybe all of us could just spend the night the way our ancestors did telling stories by candlelight, exchanging ideas, how just looking at the stars.

exchanging ideas, how just looking at the stars. That does sound nice actually. It does. Yeah. Just let me turn my phone to silent. Hey Noah, you sure this is about us returning to nature and not about you not wanting us to see the news or Facebook makes the news? No, it's the nature thing. Okay. Why?

I don't know, is maybe you punched an old lady at the 7-Eleven? Damn it. The cops said they were gonna wait until she woke up to take her statement. I'll go turn on the breaker. An old lady, dude. She was paying in Penny's Tom. Hello and welcome. The citation needed.

Podcast where we choose a subject. There's a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts. Because this is the internet and that's how it works now. I'm Heath and I'll be hosting this meltdown. I'm kind of like the heavy water and control rods. nuclear ballast. I love this. And I'm joined by the radioactive fuel, the neutron gun, the steaming rage, and of course,

the guy who pressed the do not press button that we have for some reason. Cecil, come, go ahead and go ahead. I do process lentils into hazardous chemical gases. That is true. That is true. Listen, I'll tell you this much. I'm definitely not a light body reactor because I'm fat. That's true. Listen, I'll tell you this much. I'm definitely not a light body reactor because I'm fat. That's why.

I was going to give somebody else heavy water, but I gave it to me because just, you know, I'm also fat. I don't know if it's scientifically accurate, but I like the idea that nuclear accidents are precipitated by the reaction getting mad at us. So I'm happy with my part. Eli, you're here too? All right, weird. Let's go ahead and start the show.

Cecil, what person plays thing concept phenomenon or event? We're going to be talking about today. The patrons, oh, we skipped that. Energy accidents, energy accidents, fantastic. So other than fitting absolutely perfectly into our theme of tragic mass death and stupidity, how else did you pick the topic? Ah, so on the suggestion of Patron Sin R. Johnson, I plan to do the Willow Island disaster

that took place in 1978. But sometimes with patron suggestions, we get shorter articles that can't be a whole episode. So I thought, well, what non-nuclear disasters can I write about? Surely there's been some of those, right? Well, I stumbled across a page on Wikipedia called Energy Accidents. And interestingly, we have already talked about a lot of these. Centralia, Pennsylvania, episode eight, Lake Penaure, episode 85, Chernobyl, episode one, and the Texas City disaster, episode two, 16. I will point out, despite my reputation for making episodes about disasters three out of four of those are no episodes.

Stop trying to make up reputations for yourself, Cecil. You jog and we're best friends. They're going to put it on your tombstone. Anyway, this episode will be a lot of smaller and possibly lesser known non nuclear energy disasters. Let's start out with the great smog of London. The year is 1952 and an anti-psychlon moves over London. Now, an anti-psychlon is actually a period of calm weather, and in this case, very calm and cold weather. The people of London started to fire up their cold-based heat all over the city. The problem, of course, was that coal that they had was not of high quality.

The high quality coal had been shipped and sold to pay off war debts. So the people of London were left with low quality coal that emitted large amounts of sulfur dioxide. Okay, yeah, low quality. As opposed to the high quality coal which burns with the smell of freshly baked cookies and clink it on. The fuck is happening? What are you taking a payout from Connitz?

Clean coal? Clean coal? I'm sorry, but I love this weather naming convention and I will here in refer to sunny days as anti blizzards. Right. So that anti cyclone was a large heat mass holding in place a cold mass of calm weather right over the city. So once the chimneys started belching this smoke, it didn't just waft away in the breeze, there was no breeze.

So it accumulated. This type of air pollution had its own name in London. It was called a pea super. It was exacerbated by the fog, as the pollution hung in the water, leaving a yellowish mist everywhere. This smog was super dense too. They say that there was a one meter visibility and that's three feet, three inch visibility in the daytime. This was also before they had fluorescent lights that were commonplace. So they had this weak ass yellow lights from the 1950s

that didn't penetrate the smog at all at night. You know, I bet after all those years, they'd spent in the blackout during World War II, this just had to feel like a real kick of the dick, you know? Like, well, we can turn on the lights after all those years, nothing to see. Which is, I do find it interesting that like, that one time London was like LA for a few days is of historical note.

The smog was so thick, they stopped all means of public transportation. Again, just like LA. Except, tap the London underground was so pervasive that the smog would work its way indoors. Oh, they had to close it to that. Yeah. But they had to close theaters because the smog was so thick inside the buildings that it made the movie screen too hard. Close.

Only 3D. Right. They also replaced a lot of electric transportation at the time. And all of that exhaust from cold powered steam and diesel and gasoline engines filled the air and mingled with the cold smoke. I say, fellas, maybe we could start making smoke for a second while we're all trapped in the never ending smoke. And it's talking right now. Where the fuck are you leaving? This caused absolutely no panic in Londoners who

were used to this kind of crappy air quality. So they just stiff up or lung the whole ordeal. Number crunching after the fact revealed that 4,000 people died from the smog. The elderly and the young with respiratory issues were the most affected. The next year, they added 2000 more deaths to the death toll after a re-examination and added 25,000 people that claimed sickness benefits during the smog. A report from 2004 suggests that it was actually not 6,000 as thought in 1953, but 12,000 people that died from the smog. Jesus.

Yeah, I'm sorry, Cecil. Smog. I think you misspelled liberal conspiracy. All right. This is all sad stuff, but the UK energy sector is doing great here in 2023. So good. Were there any other hiccups along the way or just smooth sailing ever since? Okay.

Little back. So here we go. Next, we're going to 1965 to ferry bridge power stations in West Yorkshire, England. These are pretty standard coal power plants along the river R. Iron, iron, iron, iron. What is that?

Iron, along the river, iron. I don't know. Whatever, and I'll go get corrected. It doesn't matter. I don't know. Just spell it like it fucking set God damn it. Right. The cooling towers for smoke stacks look a lot like cooling towers for nuclear plants.

Both these plants run off steam. They just use different power sources. Anyway, these cooling towers are basically big cylinders that are a little thicker at the bottom. I get it cooling towers. Som day you'll meet a fiery red head who prefers their cooling towers that way and you'll be fine. She's just, but Anna have red hair when you're not. I was talking about Heath. That's okay. My mom does love me. The way I'm. These cooling towers are rated for pretty high winds. However, when they rate these structures for wind, they do an average wind speed over the course of a minute. They do not account for gusts.

Or at least they did not at the time. I sure hope they changed this. The cooling towers also were placed in like a specific way so that their grouping caused the winds to be forced into the towers, creating vortexes. Jesus. Ripped the towers apart. These 85 mile an hour ago, so wind knocked down three of the five towers. Jesus, please. Oh, let's just say, C-Soul.

But cold doesn't burn that hot. The old one's cold doesn't burn that hot. See how fast they fell? That is an anti-cyclone. God damn it. All right, lots of talk about the UK being stupid with their stuff. I feel like that means it's time for the UK to hold West Virginia's beer or something like that. You are correct.

You are correct. The next disaster happened at Willow Island, West Virginia in April of 1978. This was during a time when a lot of power plants were being built in the Ohio Valley. They were constructing the cooling towers on one of the power plants and attached the scaffolding to the side of the structure. Many problems with the construction followed, but they were exacerbated by the fact that everything was rushed to completion. They did not allow the concrete structure to cure sufficiently, however, they also missed some of the bolts on the scaffold and other bolts were not up to the proper grade.

Sorry, this is a very sexual, right? You guys are getting sexual things on this, right? This scaffold only had one access ladder, which meant that there was some king of sexual thing on this, right? This scaffold only had one access ladder, which meant that there was some kind of emergency requiring evacuation that there would be a bottleneck. Right. Also two giants came over and played Jenga with the support piece in the end.

Come on. Oh, oh, boss, the bolts seem to be anchored into what appears to be wet cement. And there's only four of them. They all say, act me. I think a coyote was installing them at the time. So on the 27th of April, the concrete on the tower two that was put up the previous day

started to collapse. When the cooling tower concrete started to fail, basically started unwrapping the scaffolding from the tower and it started to fall away. First started peeling an account or clockwise direction and then in both directions. As the scaffolding fell away, it took with it 51 construction workers and they all basically just fell inside the cooling tower and then the cooling tower, not all that structurally sound at this point, just fell inside the cooling tower and then the cooling tower, not all that structurally sound at this point, just fell on top of them. Oh, hey, did anyone notice we're going clockwise? I had a bet. Did somebody catch the angles on this? Somebody's going to do a podcast.

Okay. Okay. Okay. So hats off to Tom. Okay. Who saw that sentence about 51 people being crushed to death under the weight of greedy capitalism saw that Cecil left a space for a joke after it and just dove the fuck in. I just wait a citation need.

Tom. That's sort of recognized as my shins. Statement. It probably doesn't come as much as a surprise that no one survived. And after it was over, there was an investigation finding 20 OSHA violations, including improper field testing of concrete and improper anchoring of the scaffolding. And the ad insults. The towering? Yeah.

The towering. The towering. The towering. The towering. The towering. The towering. The towering. The towering. The towering. The towering. to add insult to injury here, the cases of the people who died settled for $85,000. That's not per person. That's total.

$1,700 bucks a piece. The DOJ. The DOJ did convene a grand jury for the dust, but it's business so no charges were filed. Jesus. I mean counterpoint. Everyone who died were also the people who didn't let the cement dry and left out every other nail. What I'm saying is the price seems right. I know.

Oh, that's good. Okay. Well, as usual, people are dying tragically and Eli's yelling jenga. So that's fine. Let's just go ahead and take quick break before he asks what dead construction workers were wearing. Let me know where they were. Alright everyone, today we're going to be doing our win testing for the cooling towers. These towers are going to be experiencing an average of 43 mile an hour win, so we're going to make sure they are safe at that exposure. Sorry, just a quick thing.

Yes, yes, it's a very strange question. Do you say average of 43 miles an hour? Yes, yeah, according to our calculations, that is correct. Right. But the average, that, that means nothing, right? We want them to withstand the maximum wind. They're going to be exposed to the average. Well, you, you, you, you might think that, but no, then we could end up building structures that are too strong. So, yeah, no, so we'd like to do the average.

I'm sorry. What happens if the cooling towers of the power plant are too strong? Thank you. Well, the project could slow down. Could be unnecessarily expensive. Right, but the alternative is that the towers fall over. Yeah, I suppose so. Yeah. Okay, okay, so I'm just good ball in here. What if we err on the side of, you know, not having the towers fall over. Look, gentlemen, I understand what you want, but we're a coal company.

All right, we're perfectly aware that what we do for a living is dig a finite resource out of the earth and then set it on fire until it turns into a literal poison gas that can't Escape the atmosphere so So what makes you think we give a fuck about people? Nope, he's got us there. Yeah, it's fair. Yeah, it's true. If only people were allowed to make long! [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ And we're back. When we left off, the fossil fuel industry was giving us a really good reason to support

the Jewish space lasers that Marjorie Taylor-Greenthaleson had. What's next? Okay, so the next one's a little close to home here. In 1984, Romeoville patrolyum refinery disaster. So I grew up in two little town south-west of Chicago. I lived in Romeoville and the city right next to it, Lockport. What was your exact address? I lived on South State Street, and there's a, like a hot dog stand there where I used to

live. Anyway, in 1984, a very young Cecil was outside his house on a summer evening playing with my precious few GI Joe figures by the outdoor spigot at my apartment. I won't regale you with the Dacity plot that Zartan was up to, but the spigot was running and the imaginary lasers were flying. Then all of a sudden, the water momentarily cuts out. I feel a pressure wave in all my GI Joe guys that were standing abruptly fell over.

I hear a loud explosion and I immediately thought it was a nuke because everyone thought that during Reagan, everybody thought the next thing was a nuke. Seriously, this happened right next to you? Yeah. Wow. Okay, well, obviously you had a school desk to protect yourself.

Well, if you wouldn't be here telling us this story, still sounds pretty bad though. So I right inside, told my mom, and we both come out to a huge plume of smoke coming up from the refinery seven miles away. When I was a kid, we went to Disney World, but your sounds fun too, Cecil. That sounds like a fun childhood. I'm just, I'm just, it strikes me as a great time to have known the other half of the fucking battle, right?

Right now. It's a new one. Wait, it looks easy. I do want to know what happened with the explosion and everything, but we just get a minute here. Fill me out of the Zartan situation. Like, that was right. This is him. He owe otherwise.

I just. Anyway, okay. So the problem turns out to be if I don't tell our tan be I'm gonna skip the Zartan thing. Eli's already bored with my old man stories. You could tell by his two comments. I'm gonna move on. You're not fine. It's fine.

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At this point, they sound the clacks and then they evacuate. The company fire department shows up just as it ignites, it kills 17 people in just 10 and you remember that tower that had just described the 62 foot tall one made a one and steal the explosion shot at one kilometer away. She's, she's, she's, yeah. Wow. Zartan was right on top of it. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, so short. Here's another fun pack. That is now a beloved sculpture in Chicago called the Blink. Yeah. Right. And artist who owns the entire concept of black. Yeah. Here you go.

So what's the next fun anecdote, Cecil? Yes. All right. This one's great. This one's really going to love this one. In 1989, an Ufa train filled with vacationers was traveling to the Black Sea in the USSR. About 900 feet from the tracks was a pipeline. Oh, that's a great idea there.

The pipeline was originally used for crude oil, but it had been retrofitted for natural gas liquids. This ominous line is right after in the Wikipedia, quote, in May, 1984, the Soviet Ministry of Petroleum had canceled the installation of an automatic real-time leak detection system." End quote. The next year, an excavator cracked the pipeline. Crack was 1.7 meters or 5.5 feet long.

Right as the train is going by, the pipeline pressure was increased because of increased demand. Okay, just real quick, I feel like a lot of these seats will have real-time leak detection systems. It's just that it's one very loud, very sudden alarm. Right? Well, the natural gas liquids leaked and the gas was not just dissipated in the air because the wind was still.

So the gas, this is propane and butane, by the way, just accumulated in a valley. A valley that the train went right through. Now, these are electric trains. And if you've ever seen one of these go, by, you know that they normally travel with a full complement of sparking wires. Cool, yeah. Also two giant lightning dragons, like, bags right there every after. So it ignites the gas, just as the two trains were crossing through the valley and there's an enormous explosion. The estimates of the explosion range between 250 tons and 10 kilotons of TNT. And for reference, the first nuke dropped on Nagasaki was 13 kilotons.

Jesus. Jesus, a two train seems excessive. Right, like Russia was trying to out disaster somebody didn't want to put an energy accident gap. The explosion destroyed 37 train cars. Seven of the 37 were instantly reduced to ash. Dozens of acres of forest were leveled and even more were lit on fire. I guess the weather and the fire created a whirlwind of fire that survivors had to escape from. The explosion was so violent. It blew windows out eight miles away. The pipeline explosion killed 575 officially,

but 780 unofficially and left 1,300 people in. Sorry, how did it unofficially kill 205 people? Were they in a plane over Pennsylvania? Yeah. Eli, the USSR's whole thing was unofficially killing 200. That's true. It was kind of their, that's true. That's the brand. And investigation found that there were several potential causes that are unique to the

Soviet Union and no other capitalist place on earth. There they are. An investigation found that there were several potential causes that are unique to the Soviet Union and no other capitalist place on earth. Heried work culture, canceling the addition of telemetry, taking authority to stop trains away from dispatchers, changing the type and amount of the products sent through the pipe, changing the loud pipe pressure, cutting corners, no proper process in place for safe working. All right. Let's see what went wrong. I'm a professional at checking this.

We got shenanigans, jiggery pokery, cutting corners. Are you writing this down? Valley who? Right now. Valley who right now. All right, Cecil, what else blew up because people are fucking stupid? This next one is from April in 1992. The residents of Guadalajara, Mexico started to swift a particularly strong smell of gasoline

in their city sewers. The residents were also seeing large plumes of white smoke coming out of the grates. So the city investigated and found that what people's noses already told them that there was just a lot of gasoline down there. They told the people that they were working on the problem and there was no need to evacuate.

Then, quote, at 10 a.m. on April 22nd, manhole covers in the street began to bounce and columns of white smoke started coming out of them. End quote. Jesus, okay, well, just in case you guys are wondering a manhole cover weighs about 250 pounds. So like, if they begin to bounce, there is in fact something to see here, folks.

And yeah. But I do kind of want to be one, there one one blows just so I can yell heads Seen very weird. I'm just picturing the beginning of Ninja Turtles the game when you pop a shit up Who knew how much danger we were putting fucking pedestrians? Yeah, we did that Jesus Few minutes after the sewers turned into non-wimsy cool versions of the fountains at the Bellagio, two explosions rocked the city.

Three minutes later, another part of the street exploded, shooting a bus into the air. Okay, that one wasn't the gas's fault, Cecil. That bus dropped under 50 miles an hour. That was standard bullet, spoiled damn it. Four more minutes, another explosion. Factories and city residents started to evacuate at that point, which was like 10 minutes or so after the first blast. At 1023, another explosion blew up an entire intersection of roads and 10 minutes later, another explosion in another part of the city detonated at

an intersection. Four more explosions would blow up the streets and the last two hits simultaneously at 1116 about an hour and 10 minutes after the first one. I mean, can you blame them? The sewers had been drinking the water in Mexico for a year. I'll see myself. I like that one. Thank you.

Okay. So why was their gas in the sewer and why did it explode? Well, they installed new zinc water pipes next to the steel gas pipeline that was already underground. The zinc, along with the humidity in the sewer, caused an electrolytic reaction, which basically corroded the steel from the gas pipeline, resulting in a spill. The sewer itself also had a siphon system in it to move the water from one part to another. Now, siphon is a great way to move a single homogenous liquid, but the siphon system in it to move the water from one part to another. Now siphon is a great way to move a single homogenous liquid, but the siphon was located at the bottom

of the pipe and gas is lighter than water. So the siphon was busily sucking away all the water and leaving more and more concentrated gas. And thus the sewer filled up with vapor until the explosion. Oh, yeah, I feel like you checked that, right? I feel like these are fun science facts you learn before I'd spread urban installation. Just how does this have some guy was just like zinc? Will you zinc? And it sounded like people are like, yeah, guys, we don't want it to look like we were too lazy to make it all the way through the alphabetical list of pipe materials.

Okay. Start at the back. The explosions caused fires and destroyed eight kilometers of streets. Jesus. Quote, by the accounting of Lloyds' Allundin, the reported number of people killed was about 252, although many estimate that the catastrophe actually caused at least a thousand deaths, about 500 to 600 people were missing, nearly 500 were injured, and 15,000 were left homeless. The estimated monetary damages ranges between 300 million and three billion, end quote.

Four officials from the petroleum company were indicted, charged with negligence, and then cleared of all charges. Yeah. See, I get it though, right? So seriously, judge, this is Mexico. All the crimes going on here start punishing municipal negligence. You have a baby full of heroin scrapped to your forehead right now, your honor.

Okay. The crime rate is way higher in the United States than Mexico. Unless you talk about murder, I wish it's way higher. Six times higher. Somebody's doing the murdering. This last one is a railway disaster that also includes petrol. And in no way mirrors anything happened in the United States right now at all. This one occurred in 2004 near Nishipur, Iran on the tracks near the town, set 51 rail cars filled with sulfur, fertilizer, petrol, cotton, and wool. These train cars broke free and started rolling out onto the main tracks. And they rolled quite a way.

It appears 20 kilometers before the cars derailed. Really sulfur, fertilizer, petrol, cotton, and wool. This trade is like a box mix cake for explosives. Yes, I'm expected the season to tell us about the wagon full of detonating. We were carrying thermite, thermite, thermite and fucking lightning dragons were fighting. Now, there was not a locomotive attached to these cars. They just rolled down the embankment, but they were filled with literally everything to start a huge fire. And while the local rescue services came on the scene to see if someone had been trapped inside the burning car, locals gathered around to watch the operation.

Don't do that. The cars themselves were not labeled as dangerous, even though many were filled with highly explosive or flammable contents. And this sort of thing never happens in the United States. It does, doesn't happen. Yeah. Every time they try to rewrite the rules, big train hires a philosophy major to argue, what is flammableness until the government gives up and goes home? Yeah. Nothing to be done. While they're extinguishing the fires on one of the train cars just explodes. They say this was the equivalent of about 180 tons of TNT. Jesus. There was all the explosion.

Destroyed the city. It was nearest to and also damaged four nearby towns. The blast was filled. 70 kilometers away. Everyone at the scene was either severely injured or killed in the blast. 295 people died in the explosion. 460 were injured. And here's a weird observation from Wikipedia to end with quote, the wreckage of the train and the village continued to burn and explode for several days,

despite the cold weather. And quote, what? Right. You should have get too cold. I don't know, man. I don't know why that's in there, but it's there. It's there. What? I know what we use when it's too cold outside. I know. I don't understand why it's there, but I left you with it. I said, good day. All right. I don't know where we're going with this, but we normally do it. If you had to summarize what you've learned in that sentence, what would it be?

If you count up all the casualties, Noah is still way ahead because he did the show on the Typing Rebellion. So he wins. Damn, I am the Tom Brave, the disaster service podcast. And are you ready for the quiz? Sure. Let's do it. All right, Cecil.

What natural disaster took place during my childhood that people should pity me for? A, 9-11. B, really Cecil? You need an answer other than 9-11. Okay. C, it was 9-11, Cecil. 9-11. 9-11.

Okay. Or D. 9-11, Cecil. Oh, Kestia. Cecil just for the record. He had probably all the fucking GI Joe's he wanted. You want to feel sorry for him? I like the way he got out of that story was I wanted to be pity not that I wanted to share an old ban store Also Eli probably didn't even show up in New York that day, right? First of all, we had a big meeting no, but none of us showed up in New York That's it secret answer

What is that? Secret answer. What is that? E no She was in the Shoes in the towers. What's doing an anti-Semitic trope, but it was a joke. It was that it was a clever joke. F He really is an anti-Semite He fucking hotter game twice. I saw him. He did He's playing as a Gringot or whatever.

Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, that's pro. It's a playable race. It's it. All right. See, so every citation needed episode needs its own soundtrack. What are some options for this episode? A, light my fire by the doors.

B, great balls of fire. Okay. Okay. C, fire starter by prodigy. D, blinding lights by the weekend. Or E, uptown funk. That was just a banger. Banger.

That's such a fucking good song. It would also be good for that. No, but that would also be like appropriate for the London fog. Right. Uptown funk. That's one on this list is fire started by prodigy. 100% all right. I'm twisted fire starter. See, we're gonna fight. Why do you know why are you kidding? Whatever. Go ahead. Twisted fire starter. I have one for your season. Which of the following actual G Joe fingers would it have been funnest for you who have been playing with at the moment of a deadly industrial action? A,

B, break, C, barbecue, D, deep six, or E, footies. They're all so good. They're all so good. D, deep six, or E, foot-miche.

They're all so good. They're all so good. They're all so much. I'm gonna go with the secret answer F all the above. Oh, no, I'm sorry it was foot-loose. This is foot-loose. Oh, papa. That's close. I was just foot-loose.

Noah, you stumped him, you're the winner. All right, well, I would like a Tom Essay next week then. All right, well, for Tom Noah, Cecil and Eli, I'm Heath. Thank you for hanging out with us today. We'll be back next week, and Tom will be an expert on something else. Do it now and then, you can hear Tom and Cecil

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