Earthquake caused massive nuclear storage casks to move

[mick silver]

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http://www.opednews.com/populum/uploaded/north-anna-20110902-995.jpgLast week's central Virginia earthquake caused 25 spent-fuel storage casks -- each weighing 115 tons -- to move on their concrete pad at Dominion Virginia Power's North Anna nuclear power plant. The shifting of these massive casks holding used nuclear fuel was the first caused by an earthquake in the U.S., according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

[SWRichmond]

You need to understand that you could shove those things off of a roof and they'd be unharmed.

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/transport-spenfuel-radiomats-bg.html