Flood wall fails at Fort Calhoun (nuke plant power was transferred to emergency diesel generators)

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Sam Womack

Floodwaters surrounded several buildings at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station early Sunday morning after a water-filled wall collapsed.

The plant, about 19 miles north of Omaha, remains safe, Omaha Public Power District officials said Sunday afternoon.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is monitoring the Missouri River at the plant, which has been shut down since early April for refueling.

The 2,000-foot berm collapsed about 1:25 a.m. Sunday due to “onsite activities,” OPPD officials said. The Aqua Dam provided supplemental flood protection and was not required under NRC regulations.



Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20110626/NEWS01/110629782#flood-wall-fails-at-fort-calhoun

Where is the proverbial dutch boy with his finger in the dike to protect us this time?

Hope I am wrong, but I got a bad, bad feeling about this.

I'm about 180 miles downriver from you and have been watching this development closely.

Thanks for the updates! :hi:

...that this would happen? I was *ASSURED*, I
tell you, *ASSURED* that I was wrong.

:eyes:

Tesha

Iodine contamination in milk...

I know

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- A water-filled berm protecting a nuclear power plant in Nebraska from rising floodwaters collapsed Sunday, according to a spokesman, who said the plant remains secure.

Some sort of machinery came in contact with the berm, puncturing it and causing the berm to deflate, said Mike Jones, a spokesman for the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), which owns the Fort Calhoun plant.

The plant, located about 20 miles north of Omaha, has been shut since April for refueling.

"The plant is still protected. This was an additional, a secondary, level of protection that we had put up," Jones said. "The plant remains protected to the level it would have been if the aqua berm had not been added."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/26/nebraska.flooding/index.html

is my firm belief that no matter what, they would be saying just what they're saying.

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"

but i'm not familiar with the reference? i'm thinking more recently, like fukushima, the gulf spew, etc.

a comment about another water dam that had burst, and a poster spent several posts deriding the idea that this one at Ft Calhoun could do so.

Well, I said I'd be glad to be wrong. But I was right, as I always am when it comes to predicting disaster from the filthiest, most expensive way to boil water in the universe, aided by its lying minions with government folk in their pocket.

We have got to do away with nuclear plants completely and totally and quickly, and replace them with highly dangerous, highly polluting, godawful technology called wind generation.

I know! Foolhardy, eh?

see you went to the Big Ten.... didn't think there would be any consequences?

:sarcasm:

But the question is, how long do we play this collective Russian roulette?

This should be taken as a signal. The necessity of treating the energy problem like war, putting a trillion dollars a year into the replacement of the hydrocarbon and nuclear systems with the developing alternatives of solar, wind, ocean tide, efficiency and transport restructuring (railways and mass transit). Unlike with war or pensions this is money that could just be printed, since it represents infrastructural investments that build the economy. It is the solution to the problems of employment and economy.

But we've seen that neither the BP extermination in the Gulf nor the Fukushima disaster have, so far, been taken as signals, except bizarrely and suicidally, in the aftermath of the BP case, to clear the way for more ocean floor drilling. Neither were the discovery of the Pacific garbage patch or the Pakistani floods understood as signals.

Must we take this civilization to the bitter end?

in Eastern nebraska and Western Iowa...Holy Crap