Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station and now Los Alamos update

Sorry I moved this to get more exposed.

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Latest Update Sunday 1pm

FORT CALHOUN, Neb. — A berm holding back floodwater at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station has collapsed.

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

The 2,000-foot berm collapsed about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, allowing the swollen river to surround two buildings at the plant. The NRC says those buildings are designed to handle flooding up to 1014 feet above sea level. The river is at 1006.3 feet and isn't forecast to exceed 1008 feet.

The NRC says its inspectors were at the plant when the berm failed and have confirmed that the flooding has had no impact on the reactor shutdown cooling or the spent fuel pool cooling.

NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko will visit the plant Monday.
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/6994176ea5d246fdb9181c3139cac0b2/NE--Missouri-River-Flooding-Fort-Calhoun/

 

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“Ft. Calhoun is the designated spent fuel storage facility for the entire state of Nebraska…and maybe for more than one state. Calhoun stores its spent fuel in ground-level pools which are underwater anyway – but they are open at the top. When the Missouri river pours in there, it’s going to make Fukushima look like an x-ray.”
 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25307

 

fort calhoun power plant

 

I am way up hear in Canada and this is nowhere on the news. Is it on any american MSM?

Airspace Over Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Still Closed

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/faa-closes-airspace-over-flooded-nebraska-nuclear-power-plant-2011-6#ixzz1QNsNPxYy

WTF  o_O  . Fires as well?

Why is Russian news the only place I can find anything other than a fluff piece like the NY Times or Washington Post which only talk about last years non-compliance? Anyone with half a brain can see this as a potential nightmare.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

http://abcnews.go.com/US/minot-north-dakota-levees-overflow-floods-hit-missouri/story?id=13907747

Oh crap. Blame Canada O:)

This is very strange. Up river is expected to raise 9ft but down river nothing to worry about?

Dave Bannister says for the plant to get to a disaster level, floodwater would have to rise three and a half feet above where it stands now. The layers of levees protecting the plant would have to be breached and damage to the reactor would have to occur. He says all of this is highly unlikely.

Hmm, the Souris River unexpectedly rose faster and higher than expected and the Missouri River is stated to be rising still but 3 1/2 is plenty of room. Ya right.

In Atchison County Missouri, a levee has just broken and residents are under an immediate evacuation order.  The breach is described as “quite large” with waters moving rapidly.

 

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

River levels are not uniform, even during floods.  Depends on degree of lateral confinement at any given location I'd think.

That aside, I saw an article about it last week sometime.  Not sure where, but wasn't from one of the MSM's.  When it's a story, it'll be a story.

EDIT - just looked at the ABC clip.  Obviously, it's now a story.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Latest update looks real bad. Placed at top of the OP

Where the F*%k is the MSM?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

The 2,000-foot berm collapsed about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, allowing the swollen river to surround two buildings at the plant. The NRC says those buildings are designed to handle flooding up to 1014 feet above sea level. The river is at 1006.3 feet and isn't forecast to exceed 1008 feet.
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Wow, sounds scary. The river is going to be 6 feet short (slightly about the average height of a man) need to breach. 

By the way, it takes a lot of water to get that six feet.

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

Edit - misread your Reply #3.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Ryat, reply 4
By the way, it takes a lot of water to get that six feet.
End of Ryat's quote

Ya I know but what is a lot? Just watched another report that...

uploaded a couple minutes ago

The reports about the towns are all bad but still nothing about the power plant  >:(

 

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Depends on a lot of factors. The size of the flood can mean that 3 inches of rain can mean as little as half an inch. Given that the river is still flowing moving much of the water away from the area plus there are shorter berms that have not yet been breached as well that when they are breach will spread the water around further hence causing only minimal impact to the level. Even a worst case would still be only 2 feet rise. Given the way Nebraska is (extremely flat) a six foot level increase is extremely unlikely and would be foreseen long enough the further measures would be used.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Still has a ways to go. Now if you threw in an earthquake (a very plausible concept in that area) then I would be worried.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Latest Update

Ft. Calhoun nuke plant now running on emergency generators as workers try to restore electricity — Power supply cut after water surrounded main electrical transformers

http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2011/jun/26/bc-us-missouri-river-flooding-nuclear-safety/?news&nation-world

I feel like the only guy on the continent that is saying the sky is falling and everyone is like meh.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting myfist0, reply 10
Ft. Calhoun nuke plant now running on emergency generators as workers try to restore electricity — Power supply cut after water surrounded main electrical transformers
End of myfist0's quote

Standard procedure due to the flooding. Also this plant has something the Japanese reactors didn't (aside from a better internal system). Protection from flooding on an internal level.

Quoting myfist0, reply 10
I feel like the only guy on the continent that is saying the sky is falling and everyone is like meh.
End of myfist0's quote

The sky is always falling. The question is the severity. This is a dangerous situation. But people are working on it and handling it. Much better than they did in Japan.

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top

As Daiwa indicated, it has been in the MSM down here.  I know Fox had it (that is where I read it).

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

I am glad to see the threat is somewhat abated for now.

 

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

12 hours ago.

http://www.wat.tv/video/raw-video-flood-challenges-3ur61_31wod_.html

NRC events notice page

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2011/20110627en.html#en46989

Event 46990 REACTOR MANUAL TRIP DUE TO MAIN FEED PUMP TRIP 

Event 46991 AUTOMATIC REACTOR TRIP DUE TO TURBINE TRIP 

Event 46992 AUTOMATIC REACTOR TRIP DUE TO LOSS OF REACTOR COOLANT PUMP 
 06/26/2011 22:08 [ET]

:S o_O :omg:

Finally made the TV news in Canada last night

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/29/usa-wildfires-nuclear-idUSN1E75R1KH20110629

"I seriously believe it could go to 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares)," Tucker told reporters at a news briefing on Tuesday. "We have fire all around the lab. It's a road away."

A small offshoot of the blaze jumped State Highway 4 onto the lab grounds on Monday, burning about an acre (0.4 hectare) of property before it was extinguished about two hours later.

Between 800 and 1,000 firefighters, backed up by several water-dropping helicopters, were battling the blaze on Tuesday evening.