Published: June 26th, 2011 at 1:37 pm ET
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Flood berm collapsed at Nebraska nuclear plant, AP, June 26, 2011 at 12:59 pm EDT:
A berm holding back floodwater at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station has collapsed. [...]
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 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. [...]
h/t anonymous
See also: City near Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant gets 2.5 inches of rain in 6 hours (VIDEO)
Published: June 26th, 2011 at 1:37 pm ET
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Calhoun Lagoon.
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Maybe the head of the NRC who is going to be on-site today or tomorrow has “super powers” from the wonderful radiation that he helps “regulate” (ie. bring to us all). Maybe he can therefore fix all the problems – you know, blow hard and send the waters back or something?
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There sure is enough hot air in these nuclear mafia boys, so it would be great if it could be put to good use!
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Way too contaminated to ever be cleaned up and put to any good use.
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Hmm… yes, I do concur.
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Can they insure these reactors against floods ?
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The NRC official coming tomorrow is known to his associates as “Captain Ron”.
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Give the man a cape! Then it will all be A-OK!
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Will they stock it with fish?
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And make it a family destination! Calhoun Lagoon – the only place you can catch fish with three heads, that swim amongst the most irradiated sewage the planet has never before seen! Enjoyment and fun for the whole family! Come on down and share the rad!
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YES! And the fish are self cooking.
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Shhhshhh…. Self Cooking FISH!!! don’t tell anyone or they’ll raise the LIMIT!
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No new-fin tuna here, but new-finned Big Mo fish of all varieties.
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Cross-post from the webcam thread:
“Hot spring water pouring out of quake-hit residential area of Fukushima Pref. city”
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110626p2a00m0na016000c.html
Awesome! Radioactive Missouri River family fun and Radioactive Hot Springs in Japan.
I see a theme here. This could be global. This could be BIG (and be assured that the cancers surely will be!!). A whole new market to make BILLIONS or even TRILLIONS!
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They already stocked the Gulf, but maybe we’ll get freshwater tritium fishing at Port Calhoun. Do you need a license for that?
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“Niagra Falls…..”
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Slowly the river turns, step by step, inch by inch, …..scary !
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Yes, it is scary. While laughing as reading and typing some of the above comments, I realised that I am laughing partly due to extreme nervousness and anxiety about this situation with these Missouri River nuclear plants.
It is true that humour is essential, though, for us all – it is just too much “bad news” otherwise and really, there is something to see about the absurdity of the whole human situation right now. What a fine mess us “ship ‘o fools” have gotten ourselves into, hey?! Steering the Titanic straight into that iceberg without apparently having the slightest awareness of what we are doing.
In any case, it is no wonder that the US government officially declared a state of emergency in both counties with the affected nuclear plants (Fort Calhoun and Cooper) last Wednesday, June 22nd. For those who have not seen it, a link to an article summarising the situation as of Thursday (June 23) is here:
“Underwater Nuclear Disaster Underway in Midwest?”
http://globalcooperative.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/underwater-nuclear-disaster-underway-in-midwest/
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But we have Gov. beside us making sure things go well ! http://img.izismile.com/img/img4/20110624/640/new_collection_of_funny_fails_part_11_640_08.jpg
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This disaster may just be the continuation of the centuries old absurdity of the whole human situation:
“Mankind Swims Daily in the Sea of Knowledge, Emerging Completely Dry”.
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ROFL!!
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Or great big fish like in Chernobyl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnO9SevdCZ8&feature=related
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Yes, they are big, however, I recognized them right away as catfish.
Catfish can grow to very large size with enough food and warm water.
Without any radiation mutation.
FWIW
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…..how about some mutated vegetation ..to pretty things up a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt4buz9Z46c&feature=related
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Deformed, Mutated, Genetically Modified Animals Part 1!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2sZelFCyWI&feature=fvwrel
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No need to go to the hospital for chemotherapy, relax by Mississippi river water will do.
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This flood with it’s toxins may finish the Gulf for good ! Algae farm in the future at best !
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Before long ….. NYT will report “Authorities from the NRC said the nuclear plant at Ft Calhoun is completely underwater but there is no threat to the cooling system or the plants electrical system. It’s not a miracle, it’s well planned out scientific theroy being put into practice…now go out and buy something!”
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Yes, the theory (with a little Bill Hicks paraphrasing) seems to be something like:
“Electrical cooling systems work just fine when completely underwater folks! We figured it all out! GO BACK TO SLEEP! Your government is in control again! Go back to sleep America! Here, go Gaga over this Gaga mind-controlled puppet, watch her, shut up! YOU ARE FREE! TO DO AS WE TELL YOU! YOU ARE FREE!”
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My aerial views show the aquadam surrounding the entire Calhoun plant.
“The 2,000-foot berm collapsed about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, allowing the swollen river to surround two buildings at the plant.” (AP)
If the failed “2000 foot berm” is outside the aquadam, how has water surrounded two buildings?
Or, where is the 4/10ths mile-long berm located within the aquadam, and where did the water come from?
Is there more to this story? Is the aquadam in fact broken?
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Oh, maybe the ’2000 foot berm’ is the aquadam: they didn’t want to say “The aquadam has collapsed”, so they renamed it the ‘berm’, so now we are supposedly reassured because something we’ve never heard of has collapsed.
If the aquadam has collapsed, this nuclear plant is in serious trouble, and so are the spokespeople and the operators.
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Yes…they are screwed…I believe they have renamed the floating condom as the berm so in essence it is now useless and the supposedly “sealed buildings” are the last line of defense. Hope those workers got some good sleep…they are going to be in a for the long haul.
BTW…sorry I alarmed you a few days ago Jump…looking back in a search I saw you questioned my typo of Fort Wayne when in fact I meant Ft. Calhoun…I was looking at some web flooding reports at the Indiana town and mistyped in my Omaha comments. Nothing malicious intended. I’m definitely not a misinformation agent if you will look at the scope of my postings.
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Yes, I know you’re OK, and excuse me too.
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jump-ball
Pic ? link, or are you on live google map ?
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Hopefully their budget is large enough to include the purchase of sign’s warning people to ” Swim at Own Risk.”
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NEW THREAD: CALHOUN has lost electrical power!!!
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http://www.omaha.com/article/20110626/NEWS01/110629782#flood-wall-fails-at-fort-calhoun
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Here is the clarification from HR’s previous link
“Floodwaters surrounded several buildings at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station early Sunday morning after a water-filled wall collapsed.”
Never could trust those vinyl swimming pool patch kits.
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Mike Jones;
“We’re still within NRC regulations”
Uh huh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMjvumYwLA
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