Published: June 23rd, 2011 at 8:43 am ET
|
Officials Monitoring Rising Floodwaters At Nebraska Nuclear Plants, CNN, June 23, 2011:
[...] Nebraska utility officials have erected barriers to protect buildings at the plant from flooding and have installed a berm around the facility’s electrical switchyard. The Cooper plant is located about 80 miles south of Omaha.
“The licensee does not expect floodwaters to impact vital plant equipment,” the NRC stated.
However, CNN affiliate KETV reported Wednesday that, as a precautionary move, the facility is keeping dozens of staff members onsite around the clock. The station reported that about 60 people are sleeping on cots at the plant and that the staffers are being rotated out every two days. [...]
Published: June 23rd, 2011 at 8:43 am ET
|
sending...
I don’t like the upstream gauges: Decatur and Blair up a foot, Omaha and Plattsmouth and Nebraska City up 2 feet.
Report Comment
They lie as much as Tepco. Sleeping on cots? They should be sleeping on the cement floors.
Report Comment
They should be sleeping on rubber beach rafts.
Report Comment
I like those. Too good for them.
Report Comment
Is the water level rising at your place of work?
Report Comment
They should not be sleeping at all.
Report Comment
Anyone sleeping at the plant are just low level blue collar nuke workers trying to keep a seemingly-doomed plant safe. Your rage at them is misdirected and childish.
Their crime is one of ignorance and myopia; the inability to see the bigger picture, the whole of the problem they are a small piece of.
The plant owners and various gov’t officials are the engineers of this nightmare. Speak out intelligently against them if you want to be part of the solution.
Report Comment
Children as Subjects of Radiation Research?
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-in-japan-children-as-subjects.html
OMG. This is sick.
Report Comment
R Maddow show last night actually covered both Fukushima and the flooding/danger in Nebraska. Only a few minutes at the end of the show, but at least GE did not filter the story.
Report Comment
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2011/22jun11/20110621_084000_anim.tim-den.gif?PHPSESSID=mcctvtbufl64ca8lsa648cjvc7
Report Comment
Off topic, But the cme from the 21st. arriving tomorrow 7pm. Earthquake watch 48 hours…
Report Comment
More possible very very bad news…
You all are going to hate me again…
sigh…
Ok…
So pull up the live feed: 2011 / 06 / 23 17:51:48 – 18:20:00
What do you see… what are you looking at.?
I will give you a hint…
Look at the “Clouds”…
You are witnessing clouds forming above the reactors…
But wait…
Why are they forming? or better yet how do clouds form?
well:
There must be three main ingredients present in order for clouds to form: (http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Weather_p007.shtml)
Moisture – There must be sufficient water vapor in the air to build a cloud.
Cooling air – The air temperature must decrease enough for water vapor to condense.
Condensation nuclei – Tiny particles, invisible to the human eye, such as dust, dirt, and pollutants, provide surfaces on which water molecules can gather and condense into water droplets.
If the conditions are right, then a cloud will form. Clouds often form where two weather fronts meet, like when a cold front meets a warm front. The kind of clouds that form can say a lot about what type of weather is coming! The main kinds of clouds are stratus, cumulus, and cirrus clouds, and each one forms under different conditions.
So its now in my “opinion” that heated water particulate is being lifted into the atmosphere (via the boiling spent fuel pools). This is essentially creating “stratus” clouds, that are constantly spilling radiation into the pacific ocean…
Its even possibly that the clouds are carrying radiation even higher spreading the contaminated isotopes, even deeper into the jetstream. Making the radiation much more worse than it is at a global scale…
How long this has been taking place is a real indication as to: what type of damage has been done, and how long its been happening;
Tepco once again is telling the public that the releases are currently minimal.
while creating clouds of that size?
Well that seems to indicate quite a different story…
The reason we are seeing clouds is due to thermal temperature carrying nuclear radiation via radiated fuel pools, up. and into the cloud cover. When the hot gasses meet the cold atmosphere they create clouds. The darkness is an indication that they are heavy in water and particulate.
This indicates that there is a probably a large heated / vapor release (not steam release). which I will presume Means: Spent nuclear fuel is not being moderated by water (to create steam).
So:
Did reactor 4 already crash…
One could only infer that there is a huge piece of information missing at this point…
Questions in my mind:
Which reactor is the heated vapor coming from?
How long has this been taking place?
Did reactor 4 run dry?
My gut tells me:
4
since the latest large releases on June 23rd…
indeed it likely did…
Cheers;)
Emmy.
I just wanted to get more opinions, can someone link the footage from those times plz:)
Report Comment
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair: “Extremely high” radiation levels — No. 4 spent fuel rod pool has NO water & may not be able to be corrected
March 16th, 2011
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/nuclear-regulatory-commission-chair-radiation-levels-extremely-high-4-spent-fuel-rod-pool-water-be-able-be-corrected
Forecast map of radioactive clouds show threat to U.S. west coast (VIDEOS)
March 16th, 2011
Via the Belgium Institute for Space Aeronomy (Institut d’Aeronomie Spatiale de Belgique)
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/forecast-map-radioactive-clouds-show-threat-west-coast-videos
Must See: Interview about spent fuel rod pools with former White House official (VIDEO)
March 16th, 2011
Nuclear physicist Frank N. von Hippel, Former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/interview-about-spent-fuel-pools-former-white-house-official-video
Deadly atomic cloud poised to spread death and misery across country — US experts fear upgrade to level 7, same as Chernobyl
March 16th, 2011
Japan faces “apocalyptic” disaster as radiation spills from stricken nuclear plant, Daily Mirror,
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/deadly-atomic-cloud-poised-spread-death-misery-across-country-experts-fear-upgrade-level-7-same-chernobyl
BREAKING: TEPCO unable to pour water into spent fuel storage pool at No. 4 reactor
March 15th, 2011
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/breaking-tepco-unable-pour-water-spent-fuel-storage-pool-4-reactor
Report Comment
XDR: Tried a valved N95 mask on my 20 mile daily CA desert bike ride: breathing still too constricted, too hot, air leaks out and in on the sides.
Addicted to the ride: any other ideas?
Report Comment
Indoor stationary bicycle with generator — use to power laptop while watching live Fukushima cams.
Report Comment
There is a paper mask made that has closing flappers (one each side or one) to allow fast exit of exhaust air, others have a tendency to re-breath amounts of air that is left in mask and re-breath and for strenuous activities many types of mask are not suitable !
Try from Home Depot/Lowes, local hardwares, Walmart
Pic of what to look for: http://www.safetystock.co.uk/images/page_design/page_structure/shim.gif
this type has a 3 stage air filters – that have a layer of zeolite in them, http://burningissues.org/self-protection.html
More about mask:
http://ask.metafilter.com/20031/Best-DustGas-mask
Report Comment
Here is the link to the clouds forming above the reactors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrqdlQEajcE
Report Comment
Anyone have any opinions on the post above?
Report Comment
Sorry bub, but your comprehension of these phenomena is very mistaken.
First of all the steam that is constantly rising from these boiling kettles would never reach the upper atmosphere or the jet stream – thus their contents will remain localized.
Secondly the clouds you see are not being generated by the nuclear plants as can be plainly seen in the video.
Report Comment
Then how are isotopes that have 8 day half lives still landing in california…
Also the clouds are being formed directly above the reactors. Watch the last ten minutes of the feed I provided.
Report Comment
Can you find the vid of the lady in March, Tokoyo that filmed the weird clouds overtaking them, that I posted a few says ago ?
I didn’t save the link !
Report Comment
I wasn’t aware but I am interested in seeing it:)
Report Comment
pull down “EDIT” to “FIND ON THIS PAGE”
type in xdrfox, go to each page and click “NEXT” to find my post, will be highlight in yellow ! easier to find what one is looking for, should be 2/3 days ago in articles !
Report Comment
xdrfox – that’s the 1st time I saw all your VERY IMPORTANT videos! I’m impressed! Great work!!
Report Comment
“pull down “EDIT” to “FIND” is in reference to finding the vid of clouds in Japan I posted on enenews a few days ago !
Report Comment
SEARCHING came up empty, darn it.
Report Comment
A comment post w/ link will not show up in a site search here !
Report Comment
Posted your great link to HP though:
Amazing too is the LACK OF NEWS about all the ocean mammal D E A T H S recently:
http://tinyurl.com/6c82kc5
Report Comment
Thanks Whoopie, the more people are made aware the more people will care and begin to speak out ! I am going to do and article about, We only have 5 known female North Atlantic right whale left, yes this is almost extinction event !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_right_whale
Report Comment
I just posted this at HP
Anybody here tweet? LadyGaGa is either a t00l for Tepco or a box of rocks. Maybe both – but maybe, just maybe she is unaware of the danger in going there? Does she ever plan to have children? Is she made of STEEL? Does she take this drug?
http://www.dailytech.com/DARPA+Announces+Nanotube+Antiradiation+Pill/article10490.htm
(not available to us lowly peasants)
Her Twitter Page:
http://tinyurl.com/384j5tl
One things for certain – if her Roadies get wind of how much radiation is in the air in Japan, they’ll bail on her, don’t you think?
Report Comment
Never mind. She’s already there SHOPPING:
http://twitpic.com/5fhua2
Report Comment
comment left there:
20 EXPOSED NUCLEAR REACTOR CORES DON’T FREAK U OUT GF? GAGA’S GONNA BE GLOWIN SOON:o
Report Comment
AGING NUKES, PART 3 of 4: Populations around U.S. nuke plants soar
Jun. 23, 2011
BUCHANAN — As America’s nuclear power plants have aged, the once-rural areas around them have become far more crowded and much more difficult to evacuate. Yet government and industry have paid little heed, even as plants are running at higher power and posing more danger in the event of an accident, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Populations around the facilities have swelled as much as 41/2 times since 1980, a computer-assisted population analysis shows.
But some estimates of evacuation times have not been updated in decades, even as the population has increased more than ever imagined. Emergency plans would direct residents to flee on antiquated, two-lane roads that clog hopelessly at rush hour.
And evacuation zones have remained frozen at a 10-mile radius from each plant since they were set in 1978 — despite all that has happened since, including the accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima Dai-ichi in Japan.
Meanwhile, the dangers have increased.
More than 90 of the nation’s 104 operating reactors have been allowed to run at higher power levels…
http://www.lohud.com/article/20110623/NEWS01/106230399/AGING-NUKES-PART-3-4-Populations-around-U-S-nuke-plants-soar?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CNews%7Cs
Report Comment
Just noticed that some of ALEX’s video have re-appeared on YouTube!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqlqQyudxRw&feature=related
Report Comment
Oh great! Thanks for the HEADS UP!
Report Comment
http://news.tradingcharts.com/futures/5/6/160559065.html
DJ IEA Calls “Urgent” Press Conference In Paris For 1300 GMT
LONDON, Jun 23, 2011 (Dow Jones Commodities News Select via Comtex) — The International Energy Agency, which represents major energy consuming countries, said Thursday its Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka will hold an unexpected and “urgent” press conference in Paris at 1300 GMT.
A spokesman for the IEA declined to comment on the reason for the conference.
Analysts have recently been speculating that the IEA could be preparing to take action to reduce the oil price by coordinating the release of publicly-held oil stocks held by its member countries in case of emergency shortages.
The continued shut down of around 1.5 million barrels a day of oil supplies by the Libyan civil war continues to cause problems for the oil markets, although have been falling in recent days following weak economic data and the promise from Saudi Arabia to increase its crude production by around 1 million barrels a day.
-By James Herron and Geraldine Amiel, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0)20 7842 9317; james.herron@dowjones.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
06-23-11 0827ET
Report Comment
Oil drops as international reserves are tapped
Oil down 5 percent as IEA releases oil supplies, US contributes from strategic reserve
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Oil-drops-as-international-apf-4250255497.html?x=0
Report Comment