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US orders news blackout over crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant: report
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A shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant located in Nebraska.According to this report, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant suffered a “catastrophic loss of cooling” to one of its idle spent fuel rod pools on 7 June after this plant was deluged with water caused by the historic flooding of the Missouri River which resulted in a fire causing the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to issue a “no-fly ban” over the area.
Located about 20 minutes outside downtown Omaha, the largest city in Nebraska, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant is owned by Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) who on their website denies their plant is at a “Level 4” emergency by stating: “This terminology is not accurate, and is not how emergencies at nuclear power plants are classified.”
Russian atomic scientists in this FAAE report, however, say that this OPPD statement is an “outright falsehood” as all nuclear plants in the world operate under the guidelines of the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) which clearly states the “events” occurring at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant do, indeed, put it in the “Level 4” emergency category of an “accident with local consequences” thus making this one of the worst nuclear accidents in US history.
Though this report confirms independent readings in the United States of “negligible release of nuclear gasses” related to this accident it warns that by the Obama regimes censoring of this event for “political purposes” it risks a “serious blowback” from the American public should they gain knowledge of this being hidden from them.
Interesting to note about this event was the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chief, Gregory B. Jaczko, blasting the Obama regime just days before the near meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant by declaring that “the policy of not enforcing most fire code violations at dozens of nuclear plants is “unacceptable” and has tied the hands of NRC inspectors.”
RT says:
a Russian source?!?! LOL
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20th June 2011 at 11:28 am
StuckInNJ says:
It’s the main headline on drudgereport this morning.
The folllowing article paints a much less dangerous picture than the Russian source. Says the plant is operating at full capacity today.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110620/ap_on_re_us/us_missouri_river_flooding
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I have NO idea which source is correct. I am in the same situation as you … having to somehow decide which motherfucker isn’t lying to me …. or, which motherfucker is lying less.
A damn hard task these days, I tell you.
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20th June 2011 at 11:40 am
Administrator says:
Government officials never lie. Everyone knows that.
Well, it doesn’t seem to be turning into the crisis that we have at the Fukushima reactors in Japan right now, but this is concerning.
Truthout reported the following this week:
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….
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.
Well, good that it wasn’t worse than it was, but goes to show that things aren’t exactly as safe as should be in the U.S. when it comes to nuclear power plants and spent fuel pools either.
Coincidentally, back at the end of March, there were warnings about the safety level of this particular nuclear power plant.
“Fort Calhoun’s nuclear power plant is one of three reactors across the country that federal regulators said they are most concerned about,” KETV 7 in Omaha reported.
“Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials said Fort Calhoun’s reactor is operating safely, but it’s still on the shortlist because they want to make sure it’s prepared to handle major emergencies, like flooding.”
The regulator’s only real interest seemed to be preparing the plant for flooding.
“We’re not worried about it on a daily basis, we think it’s very safe,” local resident Sue Harsin ironically (in retrospect) said at the time.
Update (June 19), from NCNewsPress:
Cooper Nuclear Station, an electric power plant in southeast Nebraska, declared a “Notification of Unusual Event” this morning at 4:02 a. m. The declaration was anticipated throughout Saturday by the power plant’s operators, who closely tracked the river’s steady increase in elevation due to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ releases from dams upstream.
The notification was made as part of safety and emergency preparedness plan the station follows when flooding conditions are in effect. The plan’s procedures dictate when the Missouri River’s water level reaches 42.5 feet, or greater than 899 feet above sea level, a notification of unusual event is declared.
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20th June 2011 at 11:42 am
Administrator says:
Flood waters along the Missouri River came within 18 inches to forcing a nuclear power plant in Nebraska to shutdown.
The river has to hit 902 feet above sea level at Brownville before officials will shut down the Cooper Nuclear Plant.
Nebraska Public Power district says the river rose to 900.56 before dropping slightly this morning.
The plant is currently operating at full capacity.
The company send a “notification of unusual event” to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Sunday when the river reached 899 feet. The declaration is the least serious of 4 different emergency notifications created by the federal commission.
The National Guard is monitoring levees along the Missouri River in the Omaha area.
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20th June 2011 at 11:43 am
Persnickety says:
Stuck – they’re all lying to you. Hope that simplifies things.
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20th June 2011 at 11:44 am
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BROWNVILLE, Neb., June 20 (UPI) — The rising Missouri River prompted the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Neb., to declare a “notification of unusual event,” plant officials said.
The designation, anticipated by plant operator Nebraska Public Power District, was made Sunday when the river there reached a height of 42.5 feet, or 899 feet above sea level, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The notification is the lowest and least serious of four emergency classifications developed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for nuclear power plants.
The Nebraska Public Power District said in a statement the plant is operating safely and there is no threat to plant employees, who are monitoring the water levels. If the river level increases to 45.5 feet, or 902 feet above sea level, the station would be taken offline as a safety measure.
The Fort Calhoun nuclear plant, 20 miles north of Omaha, was shut down April 9 for refueling and hasn’t been restarted because of pending flooding.
President Obama Sunday declared an emergency exists in Nebraska and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the area affected by the flooding, the White House said. The declaration also authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief efforts and provide assistance.
In Missouri, the Missouri River washed over and broke through levees in the northwestern part of the state, prompting authorities to urge about 250 residents to evacuate Sunday, CNN reported.
The river breached levees at two points and slopped over barriers at two other locations near Corning, Mo., about 100 miles north of Kansas City, the Holt County Sheriff’s Department said.
Upriver, evacuation advisories were issued for 200 to 250 people in areas west of Interstate 29, said Mark Manchester, the deputy emergency management director in Atchison County. He said water spilled over the levees Sunday and already eclipsed the county’s previous record mark, set in 1993.
“We’re in uncharted waters here,” Manchester told CNN.
Across the state line in Hamburg, Iowa, where two levees failed last week, the river was expected to crest at 10 feet over flood stage in the coming days, emergency officials said.
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20th June 2011 at 11:44 am
Pirate Jo says:
Guess we can expect to see corn prices go up again. Lots of corn grows in Nebraska and Iowa, but it won’t be this year.
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20th June 2011 at 12:01 pm
Barbarossa says:
I was in Omaha on June 7th when this happened. There was some scuttlebut about the reactor’s cooling system going down on the CB (I was at the Sapp Brothers truck stop), but no one could give me a news source to reference. I later saw a military convoy on I 80 W near Des Moines. Several of the vehicles were marked “DECON”. I don’t know if the two incidents are related or not. I 29 between just North of Council Bluffs, IA. to just North of the I 80 intersection (going across the Missouri river to Omaha) and between Hamburg, IA. and Saint George, MO. has been shut down now for several days because of flooding. If either of the two plants suffer(ed) a meltdown, the water shall wash the radiation all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico and contaminate all of the areas flooded in between. Unfortunately, the Russian news media seems to be more accurate and informed than ours is these days.
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20th June 2011 at 7:00 pm
Mikey says:
@PirateJo
Want to create a fuss? take a geiger counter into the supermarkets one day
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20th June 2011 at 9:19 pm
Novista says:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110620/ap_on_re_us/us_aging_nukes_part1;_ylt=AlpWWVDv_HE5LsuP_MmhzOms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNrYWJxaXRjBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwNjIwL3VzX2FnaW5nX251a2VzX3BhcnQxBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDYXBpbXBhY3R1c251
“Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation’s aging reactors operating within safety standards by repeatedly weakening those standards, or simply failing to enforce them, an investigation by The Associated Press has found.”
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20th June 2011 at 6:51 am