Power plant explosion are occuring all too frequently.  Here are some of the most recent explosions:

Feb. 7, 2010 - Connecticut Power Plant Explosion - Mass casualties and multiple injuries were reported after a huge explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems plant in Middletown, Conn. According to sources, witnesses and emergency response authorities stated that as many as 100 people were injured and an undetermined number may have died when a massive explosion, which homeowners more than 10 miles away mistook for an earthquake, blew up a power plant being built on the Connecticut River in the southern section of Middletown, Conn.

Feb. 3, 2009 – An explosion at the We Energies plant in Oak Creek Wisconsin left six injured, two with devastating burns on half their bodies.

Oct. 27, 2008 – A gas explosion rocked an outbuilding near Exelon Corp’s Quad Cities nuclear plant in Illinois, but no plant workers were injured.

Nov. 6, 2007 – Three workers at the Salem Harbor Power Station in Massachusetts lost their lives when a boiler’s water tube ruptured, spraying them with scalding hot steam.

Oct. 2, 2002 – Exhausted firefighters battled a nine-alarm blaze for hours at the Boston Edison plant in Massachusetts. Despite the magnitude of the fire, no fatalities were reported.

Aug. 23, 2000 – A natural gas leak took the blame for an explosion at a power plant in Russell, Kansas, that leveled the facility and cut power to over 5,000 people. Two plant workers suffered serious burns.

April 8, 1999 – Two workers were killed at a Tampa, Fla., electrical-power plant blast that was blamed on a hydrogen-gas leak. Another 49 were injured.

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