Nebraska Nuke Plants Flooded – UPDATE

2 08 2011

Media Blackout on Nuclear Incident at Fort Calhoun in Nebraska

 . . . . In addition to the flooding that has occured on the banks of the Missouri River at Fort Calhoun, the Cooper Nuclear Facility in Brownville, Nebraska may also be threatened by the rising flood waters. As was declared at Fort Calhoun on June 7th, another “Notification of Unusual Event” was declared at Cooper Nuclear Station on June 20th. This notification was issued because the Missouri River’s water level reached an alarming 42.5 feet. Apparently, Cooper Station is advising that it is unable to discharge sludge into the Missouri River due to flooding, and therefore “overtopped” its sludge pond. . . .   (more + video)

http://dentondisasterrelief.org/2011/08/media-blackout-on-nuclear-incident-at-fort-calhoun-in-nebraska/ 

 

UPDATE, Aug. 5

Flood Waters Overtake Levy North Of Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant, More Evacuations

(includes VIDEO)

 

 

 


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TEPCO starts up water treatment system, but massive radioactive waste feared

16 06 2011

Flash from the Mainichi Daily News:

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) began a trial run of a radioactive water treatment system at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant on June 15 in a desperate effort to break away from the vicious cycle of injecting water into reactors to cool them and ending up with more contaminated water.

But even if the system, developed by France’s Areva SA, were to operate smoothly, it would produce a massive amount of high-level radioactive waste that could affect TEPCO’s roadmap to bring the troubled nuclear reactors under control by early next year. . . .

. . . . . .  But while contaminated water is treated, the system developed by Areva is expected to produce about 2,000 cubic meters of radioactive sludge by the end of this year. The sludge is likely to be highly radioactive with 100 million becquerels per cubic centimeter. In addition, about two to four 2.3-meter-tall cesium-absorbing containers are expected to be needed each day, but the roadmap does not take into account work to dispose of the containers. . . .

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110616p2a00m0na015000c.html

ALSO –

Reator 4 has a big fat radioactive steam cloud release.

Pictures & video at Lucas Whitefield Hixon’s blog –

http://news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/2011/06/reactor-4-releases-cloud-of-vapor-from.html 


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