Nebraska nuclear power plant at Emergency Level 4 and could become another Fukushima

abovetopsecret.com | Jun. 16, 2011 (News Report)

"On June 6, 2011, the Fort Calhoun pressurized water nuclear reactor 20 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska entered emergency status due to imminent flooding from the Missouri River. A day later, there was an electrical fire requiring plant evacuation.

Then, on June 8th, NRC event reports confirmed the fire resulted in the loss of cooling for the reactor's spent fuel pool. The discussion includes specific details of the technical failures at Fort ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jun 16, 2011 - 10:49 AM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Jun 16, 2011 - 1:53 PM PDT

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 16, 2011

An interesting bunch of events that have not been widely reported, and some looks at the possibilities of flooding taking out the electrical systems that control nuke plants and local cooling ponds for spent fuel.

In the wake of Fukushima, this story should lead to serious safety reviews of US nuke sites and the validity of their safety analysis in the face of dams, flooding, electrical shorting, and other compounded events such as lead to the disaster at Fukushima. While a washout of the storage ponds or a meltdown of the reactor in Nebraska may still be a low probability event at this point, it is a much higher probability than was used in the safety analysis, with correlation between ... More »

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Patricia Blochowiak
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 by Patricia Blochowiak - Jun. 16, 2011
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Ellie Kesselman
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 by Ellie Kesselman - Jun. 17, 2011
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Philippe Habib
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 by Philippe Habib - Jun. 16, 2011

A few questionable factoids strung together for some alarmist doomsday scare mongering.

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