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' [b]Nuclear Station Berm Collapses[/b]A 2,000 foot berm, protecting the Ft. Calhoun (Nebraska) Nuclear Power Plant collapsed around 1:30 AM Sunday morning. As usual, the Officials state "not to worry" everything us just fine. The headline on the Omaha World Herald Sunday edition is "Flooding: The worst is yet to come". In this article, the Army Corps of Engineers state that less than 1/3 of the upstream water has been released and heavy rains continue. The dams holding back the flood waters on the longest river in the United States are under unprecedented stress....Brig. Gen. John McMahon, commander of the corps' Northwestern Division stated, "It's going to be a devastating season in terms of how the levees do" In other words, levees are failing every day and this will only get worse. In some cases, one has to travel in excess of 100 miles to find a bridge or road open to cross the Missouri River.
As I stated in a previous article, the Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Plant is in danger only if the river experiences a sudden surge of perhaps ten feet. No one can (or will) state that one or more of the dams upstream are not going to experience a catastrophic collapse....if this happens, it will be the most expensive disaster in American History. Should a dam burst, the wall of water coming down the Missouri River would wash away two nuclear power station. An event no one can fathom. The Missouri River dams constitute the largest system of reservoirs in the United States.
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Government agencies are reassuring us that everything is okay and not to worry. I hope that they're telling the truth this time, and that we're not looking at a mini-Fukushima here in the states.
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' [b]More Problems at the Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant[/b]Problems continue to plague the flooded Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant. The NRC Reports listed below make it difficult to decipher the full range of events that have happened. Here are at least some of the facts.
First, a worker, moving sand, brushed the "AquaDam", rupturing it. This rubber bladder was about 2000 feet long and to quote the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) Spokesman Jeff Hanson, " It was nice to have. It was a new, first line of defense against the river."
The collapse of the AquaDam allowed water to rise more than two feet around the plant, according to Hanson. In turn, this caused a flooding problem with transformers bringing in outside power needed to keep the reactor and spent fuel pond pumps working. The plant was forced to disconnect from the "grid" and go to diesel backup power. According to Hanson,
the utility was forced to disconnect from the grid because the river water leaked through a cement barrier installed to protect the plant's main transformer. Hanson stated : "It did not work; it did not keep the water out."....
A second NRC "Event" was logged as a result of approximately 100 gallons of petroleum being released into the river after the AquaDam protective barrier was breached and many fuel containers were washed out to the river. The fuel/oil containers were staged around the facility to supply fuel for pumps which remove water within the flood containment barriers.
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Since this thread seems akin to a call and response song I thought I would add in this:
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Fire and water. The two most primal and fearful elements known to man. They can indeed be scary.
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Is radiation no more or less scary than Fire and Water to you? Are Fukushima, Ft. Calhoun, and Los Alamos nuclear reactor dangers overblown and under control in your opinion?
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Is radiation no more or less scary than Fire and Water to you? Are Fukushima, Ft. Calhoun, and Los Alamos nuclear reactor dangers overblown and under control in your opinion? Indeed it is, they are. Within limits of course. Nothing on earth is absolutely safe nor will it ever be. Just look at that nuke plant surrounded by water. It makes for a good photo op and looks like it can be scary, especially with Fukushima playing in peoples minds. And forest fires near Los Alamos--where the atomic bomb was developed. Nuclear weapons and nuclear power seem synonymous in many peoples minds. Some might envision Los Alamos going up in a 100 megaton explosion. Who knows. My gut feeling is that many equate nuclear weapons with nuclear power. Just an opinion. Water. Were you aware that in 2004 388,000! humans drowned globally? if 38 were killed by radiation exposure the hue and cry alone could power the world for on full year! I can’t find a link to support that conjecture however. Link And here’s some info on the number of people in the US injured or killed by burning: Link But none of this seems to frighten people as much as possible radiation exposure. I don’t know why that is--but it is. Perhaps because radiation is invisible? Ghostlike? I really don’t know. Humans tend have a very difficult time making logical vs. emotional sense of risk management and the difference between real vs. perceived dangers. Did I mention automobiles? Nearly 1.3 million people are killed every year on the world’s roads and about 50 million are injured, according to World Health Organization data, Dr. Dinh-Zarr said. She called the worldwide death toll “a neglected epidemic,” as global road fatalities were going up exponentially. Ban the automobile!! Make drowning illegal! Only you can prevent forest fires! Did I mention the global number of annual deaths in the coal mining world? Never mind. How about the number of premature deaths (before their time)  of people who have spent a lifetime inhaling partially combusted coal. Warfare! Falling off ladders. Black cats. Voodoo economics. I am sure none of this will change anyones mind on nuclear power. Those minds were made up a long time ago. In fact I believe most humans minds are made up on most things around the time they are 20 or so, and then spend the rest of their lives finding information that tends to mirror their already preconceived ideas--on just about any subject.
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