Enviro Group Calls for Daily Updates on Nebraska Nuke Plant Floodings + More

30 06 2011

A leading environmental group is calling on the Omaha Public Power District and the Army Corp of Engineers to intensify the pro-active publication of all information regarding two flood-threatened Nebraska nuclear plants at Fort Calhoun and Cooper Nuclear Station. . . .

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/30/3738874/enviro-group-calls-for-daily-updates.html

Water Water Everywhere, but Nebraskashima is A-OK

The media blackout is finally kaput. Tuesday was the day that Ft Calhoun finally made the evening news and not just local TV, conspiracy or leftnut websites or NHK that were already giving Ft Calhoun equal billing with Fukushima as the Next Great Thing That Could Go OMG, along with the Los Alamos fire. . . .

http://www.topix.com/city/fort-calhoun-ne/2011/06/water-water-everywhere-but-nebraskashima-is-a-ok 

( we LOVE the new word “Nebraskashima” ) 

From the timid Omaha news biz:

What if dam breaks?

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is asking for an explanation of the flooding that would occur should a dam break upstream of two Nebraska nuclear plants it monitors.

Combined, the six U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams on the flood-swollen Missouri River comprise one of the largest reservoir systems in the country. The dams are releasing historic amounts of water during what will be a summer of managed flooding in the Missouri River valley.

On Wednesday, the NRC regional office that oversees Nebraska sent an official request to the corps for its 2009 and 2010 analyses of what would happen if a dam fails.

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, 19 miles north of Omaha, has been taken offline because of the flooding. The river surrounds the plant to a depth of about two feet.

About 70 miles south of Omaha, Cooper Nuclear Station remains online. On Thursday, the river was about three feet below the level that would require the plant to shut down. . . .

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110630/NEWS01/110639977

On the  dreaded possibility of DAM FAILURE above Neb. nuke plants –

STORY   http://enenews.com/just-in-nrc-sends-concerned-about-what-would-happen-if-a-dam-fails-upstream-from-nebraska-nuke-plants-theyve-had-some-issues-corps-tells-omaha-official

VIDEO  http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15507&title=as-long-as-a-dam-doesn-t-break-upstream-everything-should-be-fine-if-one-fails-all-bets-are-off


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Flood Water at “Critical Levels” at Cooper Nuclear Station

28 06 2011

[snip] “. . . .  Cooper Nuclear Station, is on higher ground and continues to operate. However, reports said the station is close to shutting down because flood water had reached critical levels. . . . “

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90052753?Missouri%20River%20flood%20water%20threatens%20Nebraska%20nuclear%20power%20plants 

NOTE:  When they say “reports said” they mean “press release issued by the plant operator’s PR team“. – F.C. 

 It is easy to dissect current nuke-plants-are-safe propoganda so prevalent now. Here’s a portion of a CNN account:

“. . . .  The Nebraska plant, located along the swollen Missouri River, is currently surrounded by about two feet of water. The facility, designed to withstand at least eight more feet of water, is reportedly dry inside, shut down and not thought to be in any immediate danger. . . . “

Let’s count the LIES: 

two feet of water  

a LOT more water than 2 feet – it is stop-sign high and rising

eight more feet 

It’s 3 feet from CORE DAMAGE and CATASTROPHE according to the NRC documents

reportedly

substitute “reportedly” to “according to nuke facility press release“

dry inside

LIE. The turbine area has water seeping in it

shut down

even offline it takes most of a year to cool down fuel rods . . . the rods are not ‘shut down’ but super heated

immediate danger

there is immediate danger of:

power loss, backup power loss, backup fuel loss, turbine area flood out, meltdown, spent fuel meltdown, radioactive water release, flood defense failure, cooling failure due to flood, cooling failure due to power loss


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Flooded Missouri River gets more rain

28 06 2011

Here’s the flood update today:

“Flooding has been a concern all along the Missouri River for weeks because of massive amounts of water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been releasing from upstream reservoirs. The National Weather Service said Monday that there has also been significant recent rainfall in Nebraska, western Iowa and northwestern Missouri. Forecasters said the storms dumped several inches of rain in parts of Missouri, up to six inches in some areas.

The corps had expected the river to remain high at least into August because of heavy spring rains in the upper Plains and substantial Rocky Mountain snowpack melting into the river basin. But forecasts now call for the Missouri River to rise faster because of the recent rain in basins of Chariton and Grand rivers, which flow into the Missouri River, said Scott Watson, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill. He said flooding also is anticipated on the Platte River because of the heavy rain.”     From http://www2.wsls.com/news/2011/jun/28/ap-top-missouri-news-at-258-am-cdt-ar-976685/


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Large levee breach 3 miles up from Cooper Nuclear Station. Mandatory evacs

24 06 2011

Around 9:00 Thursday night, a large levee breach occurred at Brownville, Mo. three miles upstream from Nebraska’s Cooper Nuclear Station, the atomic reactor identical twin to Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 to 4. Mills County issued a mandatory evacuation order, are disconnecting power today, and say the General Electric Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor of Cooper Nuclear Plant that has been under an “unusual event declaration,” is not threatened. NRC Chairman is heading to the site. . . . (more)

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/large-levee-breach-3-miles-up-from-cooper-nuclear-station-mandatory-evacs 

Levee Breach Downriver Means Reprieve For Nuclear Plant

Brownville, NE – (AP) – The failure of a Missouri River levee in northwest Missouri offered a brief reprieve Friday from flooding near the Cooper nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska, although officials expect the waterway to rise back up to a threatening level.

The National Weather Service said the river dropped more than a foot at Brownville to 43.1 feet Friday morning after the breach Thursday evening upstream in northwest Missouri. Before the breach, the river had been 44.8 feet deep at Brownville.

The river would have to rise to 46.5 feet before it reaches Cooper, which is owned by the Nebraska Public Power District, but the plant would be shut down as a precaution if the river reached 45.5 feet. . .  (more)

http://www.action3news.com/story/14971210/levee-breach-downriver-means-reprieve-for-nuclear-plant


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Nebraska Flood-Threatened Nuke Plants June 21, 2011

21 06 2011

Missouri Governor: Even More Water Could Be On the Way

Nixon: Even More Water Could Be On the Way Along Flood-Swollen River

ST. JOSEPH, MO— Missouri Governor Jay Nixon took to the air on Monday, touring flooding along the Missouri River from St. Joseph north to the Iowa state line, as officials say that more stormy weather out west could cause more high water along the river in Missouri.

Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say that they might have to increase their volume of release at Gavin’s Point Dam because of incoming weather. Currently, the Corp is releasing 150,000 cubic feet of water per second from the dam, but Nixon says that a pair of storm systems – one in Kansas and the other in Montana – could force officials to release even more water downstream, causing even more flooding along the Missouri River in northern Missouri. . .   (dated last night)

http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-missouri-river-floods-governor-jay-nixon-says-even-more-water-could-be-on-the-way-along-floodswollen-river-20110620,0,4004642.story

Flooding affects cell towers

Flooding along the Missouri River has prompted AT&T and Sprint Nextel to take a number of cellular towers along the Nebraska-Iowa border offline, the companies said Monday. Sprint has eliminated power and service to 12 sites in flooded areas along Interstate 29, and AT&T has turned off five towers in the same area. All of the cell sites were switched off prior to the flooding along the Missouri River, and most of those areas have since been inundated with water, the companies said. Before switching off the equipment, Sprint and AT&T determined that flood levels would damage equipment, including radio and satellite facilities and the electronics that are stored underground, beneath each tower. . . . .

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110621/MONEY/706219953

 ↑   Interstate 29 goes next to the flooded nuke plants –

Omaha Area Map showing Interstate 29

Missouri river flooding threatened America’s nuclear plant

The swollen Missouri River had posed a serious threat to a riverside nuclear power plant in the state of Nebraska in the United States after levees built to hold back the rising floodwaters failed.

The Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant was reportedly very close to getting engulfed by the floodwaters, raising fears of a crisis similar to Japan’s Fukushima disaster. . . .

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/166612/20110621/latest-pictures-of-missouri-river-fort-calhoun-nuclear-power-plant-flooding-missouri-river-flooding.htm

 

Nuclear danger in Nebraska because of the flooding

ALSO:

NRC in 2010: Major flood could cause core damage at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant– Cited for second most serious category of violation 

Local News in Nebraska Under Water

“Local news not reporting about nuclear power”

MORE  HERE   LATER ….. 


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Cooper Station (Neb.) nuke plant issues a flooding alert

19 06 2011

Neb. nuke plant notifies feds of Missouri flooding

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Public Power District issued a flooding alert Sunday for its nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska as the Missouri River continues to rise.

Mark Becker, a spokesman for the Columbus-based utility, said the “notification of unusual event” sent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was expected as the river swells above record levels. The declaration is the least serious of four emergency notifications established by the federal commission.

“We knew the river was going to rise for some time,” Becker said. “It was just a matter of when.”

The plant was operating Sunday at full capacity, and there was no threat to plant employees or to the public, he said.

The notification was issued about 4 a.m. Sunday, when the river reached 42.5 feet, or 899 feet above sea level, at the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville. Cooper is at 903 feet elevation, and NPPD officials said the river would have to climb to 902 feet at Brownville before officials would shut down the plant.

Becker said the river is expected to crest there at a little over 900 feet. At such a level, officials would need to barricade internal doorways at the plant to protect equipment. . . . (more)

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Neb-nuke-plant-notifies-feds-of-Missouri-flooding-1430742.php

AND —

Levees in northern Missouri breached, overtopped

Authorities said water — some of it from recent rain — began pouring over levees Saturday night and Sunday morning in Holt and Atchison counties, flooding farmland and numerous homes and cabins.

A hole in the side of a Holt County levee continued to grow Sunday, deluging the state park and recreational area of Big Lake, 78 miles north of Kansas City.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Kevin Wingert said engineers would monitor the overtopping to try to determine how much of an effect it will have on water flows downstream. “It’s too early to say what the full impact will be on it,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Nebraska Public Power District issued a flooding alert Sunday for its nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska as the Missouri River continues to rise. . . . (more)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hI-VS-3fvoAzPxjlfsgfbn5XA8ag?docId=eee009a067e9406fbdd255e3819a6265


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Second Nebraska Nuclear Plant Threatened By Flooding

17 06 2011

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. [umm-humm!]

The Cooper plant is located 70 miles south of Omaha. . . .  ( more)

http://www.businessinsider.com/second-nebraska-nuclear-plant-threatened-by-flooding-but-everything-should-be-fine-2011-6


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