Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant has an event - and

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php


A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said. The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in March. If the cooling water a pool is lost, the used nuclear fuel could catch fire and release radiation. As ProPublica reported earlier, fire safety is a continuing concern at the country's 104 commercial reactors, as is the volume of spent fuel piling up at plants. Officials at Fort Calhoun said the situation at their plant came nowhere near to Fukushima's. They said it would have taken 88 hours for the heat produced by the fuel to boil away the cooling water. Workers restored cooling in about 90 minutes, and plant officials said the temperature in the pool only increased by two degrees. The fire, reported at 9:30 a.m., led to
the loss of electrical power for the system that circulates cooling water through the spent fuel pool, according to a report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. A chemical fire suppression system discharged, and the plant's fire brigade cleared smoke from the room and reported that the fire was out at 10:20 a.m., the NRC said. Mike Jones, a spokesman for the plant's owner, the Omaha Public Power District, said Fort Calhoun has a backup pump to provide water to the spent fuel in case the main system is lost. That pump, which runs on a separate power supply from the rest of the plant, was inspected and standing by on Tuesday, but plant operators restored main power to the pool before the emergency pump was needed, he said. Fort Calhoun's single reactor has been shut down since April for refueling. The plant had already been operating under a heightened level of alert because of nearby flooding on the Missouri River, the NRC said. The cause of the fire remained under
investigation this morning.
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Second Nebraska Nuclear Plant Threatened By Flooding

A second nuclear power plant in Nebraska is being threatened by rising floodwaters, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a federal watchdog agency, says the plant's owners are taking the appropriate steps to ward off danger, according to a report in the Omaha World-Herald.

The Cooper Power Station would have to go into cold shutdown should floodwaters rise an additional six feet, a prospect local officials say is highly unlikely.

The Cooper plant is located 70 miles south of Omaha. The other nuclear plant at risk of flooding, the Fort Calhoun power station, is just north of Omaha.

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Elizabeth Cory, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, told the Omaha World-Herald that the flight bans over the two nuclear plants are meant to avoid collisions between aircraft drawn to the scene by curiosity.

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curiosity?

ZERO times

If you check the stations in the local area, you'll see that all of this is being reported when it happens. Google News will lead you to the stories. Just type in the name of the plant.

At this point, neither story is anything but a local story.

The log date on the Hungarian site is when they reported it, not when it happened.

nt

Right now, the issue is the flooding, but the plant is shut down anyhow for refueling. You know that you can go to www.nrc.gov and read all the incident reports there as soon as they happen, right? You don't have to wait for that Hungarian site to post them. Every little thing gets reported, as required, and you can see what happened and what measures were taken. Might as well get it from the source, I think. That's where your Hungarian site is getting the information or where the people reporting it to them are getting it.

I check the NRC site once a week.

Ya gots the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant doing it's dysfunctional thing engulfed by the Missouri River just upriver of Omaha, and the city of Omaha with its sewage plant totally flooded out by the river, and spewing 6 freaking million gallons of raw sewage into the river every freaking day, along with the raw freaking sewage from a couple of other riverside cities. This reeking mix of sewage and nuclear whatever is expected to continue through the freaking summer.

Meanwhile, flooded farm fields all along the Missouri and the Mississippi are saturating the vast river flows with freaking GMO seeds and residue, along with the tons of freaking toxic herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides used to prop up the genetically mutant seeds and crops. All that mutant crapola is going muckily messily relentlessly into the freaking rivers that are the principal aqua arteries of America.

What happens when you mix raw sewage, genetically mutant toxic ag waste, and nuclear radiation? Mutant Nuclear Turds (R). Floating in vast volume through the Heartland onward to the oil-and-corexit devastated Gulf of Mexico.

Beware: Mutant Nuclear Turds (R).

I'd liked to keep this thread kicked because of what you say

about it.

kicking before I go

We spew, you decide.

nt