Published: June 20th, 2011 at 10:33 pm ET
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Event Number: 46970, Current Event Notification Report for June 20, 2011, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, June 20, 2011:
Facility: COOPER
Region: 4 State: NE
Event Date: 06/19/2011
Event Time: 19:40 [CDT]RELEASE OF OIL TO THE MISSOURI RIVER
Notification is being made to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality regarding the release of oil to the Missouri River from the Cooper Live Fire Training Facility. Currently, levees separating the Training Facility and the Missouri River are being over topped due to flooding of the Missouri River. This condition has resulted in flooding of the burn pits in the fire training facility, with the subsequent release of the residue which includes unburned fuel oil. Any release of this water containing oil to the Missouri River is uncontrolled at this time. Then is no radiological contamination in this area.
h/t Granny M
Published: June 20th, 2011 at 10:33 pm ET
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Whew! Dogged a bullet there.
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That is a official report…
you believe it ?
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I don’t believe the report. Is anyone testing for radioactivity around the plant? I felt more radioactivity today in Toronto in the air. Where was the oil stored that the water suddenly got to it? The soil was already covered in water – the oil must have been somewhere inside….
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The URL above is incorrect for this story. Here’s the correct one:
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2011/20110620en.html#en46970
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Why, Mr. Darth! Was that a pun?
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Oh! Never mind. I was thinking of “Live fire training” of a different kind. Of course, this is where where they were training to fight fire in the nuke plant, using burning barrels. [forehead palm slap]
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“Then” is no radiological contamination in this area.
Why would they say this ?? and see the mispell ??
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No radiological contamination in this area. Release the radiation readings then.
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“The oil may appear green and glowing in some cases depending on the light”
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Got Pic’s ?
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now that is funny. In a dark sort of way
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LIVE
Broadcast on Japan update.
http://www.stevequayle.com/Q.Files/q.files.html#Anchor-Listening-49575
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It appears there will be a quick recovery.
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I just baked some moist Zeolite cookies.
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Coming On !
http://www.renseradio.com/listenlive.htm
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http://www.kfab.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=122285&article=8725610
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http://www.kfab.com/pages/2011Flood.html
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Looks like everything is under control.
(I never liked the word “under”.)
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How about “underwater?”
“Looks like everything is underwater control.”
That is the truth!
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watch out;;; data on fill cap of dam pools in midwest are being removed from public view
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Interesting. Link?
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…Cooper Live Fire Training Facility
Help me out – a secret shooting range?
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See above. Firefighter training for nuketechs, if I’m right.
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NY Times:
Flooding Brings Worries Over Two Nuclear Plants
By A. G. SULZBERGER and MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: June 20, 2011
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As record floodwaters along the Missouri River drench homes and businesses, concerns have grown about keeping a couple of notable structures dry: two riverside nuclear power plants in Nebraska.
Though the plants have declared “unusual events,” the lowest level in the emergency taxonomy used by federal nuclear regulators, both were designed to withstand this level of flooding, and neither is viewed as being at risk for a disaster, said a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
“We think they’ve taken all the necessary precautions and made the appropriate arrangements to deal with the flooding conditions,” said the spokesman, Victor Dricks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/us/21flood.html
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It goes without saying that a small disaster such as oil in the river is no real cause for concern.
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It is good to see some coverage, however, with the way they structure the site, you cannot comment. This lack of comment ability keeps the interest down and prevents people who follow the story from more sites from spreading the word. would welcome suggestions on how these stories can be helped — even forced into the mainstream.
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Forced in MSM: Directly writing to the news editor, challenging single person with facts.
Result: they hide the that issue on page 346C. (You won). Their E-mail addresses become a secret. (they think they won). Feedback is closed. Advertisement dpt door is still ajar… (keep on)
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http://dalanreport.com/index.php?option=com_weblinks&view=weblink&catid=152:nuclear-us-fallout-news&id=30649:TopNuclearPhysicistWarnsMostFukushimaPlutoniumFalloutWillDropOnTheUS
Special Alert – EPA Radiation Readings
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Sorry, off topic.
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“unburned fuel oil into the river” Doesn’t sound good either.
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Oil – a product from Nature; local cocentration is often just a short period – like water – a disaster.
Unlike Scientifically clean Uranium 100000 year genetic disaster.
Californian oil rig disaster from 1969 is now a fish sanctuary, coral paradise. The fighting issue in courthouses is now NOT TO DISMATLE the old oil rigs – oops now coral reefs…
Uranium reserves have been already depleted – unlike the known Oil reserves for over 3000 YEARS.
US would be world’s biggest oil exporter – tomorrow. If all the papal geenpee regulations – banning 95% US oil drilling.
Facts here reposted http://wp.me/pwIAV-19
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Unburned fuel oil in the river? AHhhh……not to worry. That’s just the diesel fuel and lube oil they need for the generators in case they lose off-site power……..
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Not to worry. It will burn with all the shining wipeout rubble when they reach the Gulf
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Think I’ll stay in the desert, away from oceans and rivers.
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Thats where they test nuclear bombs?
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What next? Medical waste? The toxic soup is just beginning. Just wait til *everything* along that river goes into it.
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Do make a list of the mfg facilities storing waste and toxic on the river banks – waiting today fro the tsunami.
Banks? Did I say Banks? Well, maybe I meant the real realty for the pap depop industry.
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Huge releases up river.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/18/us-flooding-plains-idUSTRE75H1SX20110618
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http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/ahps_warnings.php?wfo=oax&zone=IAC129,NEC025,IAZ079,NEZ067
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The Missouri River at Omaha.
NOAA tends to tell the truth until people start noticing.. then they hide the data.
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=oax&gage=omhn1&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1“
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Missouri gauge at Plattsmouth has not been updated and is 75 minutes behind the latest readings for Omaha, Nebraska City and Brownville:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=oax&gage=ptmn1&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1“
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Maybe this will be new thread material…
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Some Missouri River gauges upstream from COOPER nuclear are acting ‘up’, like Plattsmouth up 1.5 feet in 12 hours and Omaha up 1 foot in 12 hours, looking like the Brownville rise I saw early Sunday morning before the COOPER ‘event notification’ was issued:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=oax&gage=ptmn1&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1”
If this is just rainwater and runoff from yesterday’s storm, then a longer 2-3 day rainstorm adding 2-3 feet more over the levees and sandbags could really catch the attention of the FORT CALHOUN and COOPER-Brownville operators.
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Plattsmouth was updated and was up .04 feet in last hour, X 24 hours = .96, ie., going up now at 1 foot per day rate.
Other nearby gauges show .5 to .75 feet/day rates of rise.
The Missouri River gauges don’t move in unison but can rise or fall independently, apparently as much as 3 feet in 12 or so hours, perhaps from local run-off from regional rains.
Here’s an unusual estimate for Hamburg for a 4 foot rise in the next 12 hours:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=oax&gage=hmbi4&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1”
Will be interesting to see how much downstream COOPER-Brownville is affected:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=oax&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1&toggles=10,7,8,2,9,15,6
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I am monitoring all the Missouri River gauges from Rulo in the south to Fort Peck in Montana, and the water levels are generally steady except for isolated 3 foot plus rises at individual gauges, based presumably on local rains and run-off.
If one of the 6 major dams were to ever break, this reading of a 21 (twenty-one!) foot rise in 36 hours, is what one or more of the downstream gauges would show:
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=abr&gage=ftps2&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1”
I am sure that FORT CALHOUN and COOPER-Brownville nuclear operators have hotlines open to NWS and upstream Corps managers, and this flood graph is what they realize could happen, their worst nightmare come true, washing out their reactor, and just what they don’t want to see.
So, I’ll watch for them.
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