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NYT: Fire before Ft. Calhoun’s spent fuel pool lost cooling power “remains under investigation”

Published: June 21st, 2011 at 11:38 am ET
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Flooding Brings Worries Over Two Nuclear Plants, New York Times by A. G. SULZBERGER and MATTHEW L. WALD, June 20, 2011:

[...] Much of the attention has been focused on the Fort Calhoun plant because of recent concerns about its preparedness and the dramatic images of the structures surrounded in all direction by water, as if rising out of a lake. Earlier this month, the plant briefly lost power needed to cool the spent fuel pool after a fire that remains under investigation. [...]

Published: June 21st, 2011 at 11:38 am ET
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