Published: June 23rd, 2011 at 5:55 pm ET
|
Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing Near Fort Calhoun, KETV, June 23, 2011:
OPPD Looks For Weaknesses In Transmission Lines
A helicopter surveying power lines was forced to make an emergency landing after reporting mechanical problems Thursday. [...] about 1 1/2 miles south of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant [...]
The company has been surveying the transmission lines to look for weaknesses due to flood conditions.
Published: June 23rd, 2011 at 5:55 pm ET
|
sending...
When objects find themselves anchored in soggy soil, they tend to move. How long before such could happen to ah… lets say, a building structure or, a high voltage line support tower.?
Just how long is this place expected to be a part of this river. Any ideas?
Report Comment
“emergency landing” I guess. The chopper is laying on it’s side.
Report Comment
Or under water.
Report Comment
I could just see the chopper lose controlability and take out the very power lines they were checking.
Report Comment
In other words, how long can a building tread-water? I don’t think that this one will float very long.
Report Comment
“Just how long is this place expected to be a part of this river.” Wow. Put it that way makes me sit up and wonder, too, how long important structures are supposed to last in a river. Good question.
Report Comment
An article with an overview of the situation with the two nuclear plants that are threatened by the Missouri River flood waters:
“Underwater Nuclear Disaster Underway in Midwest?”
http://globalcooperative.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/underwater-nuclear-disaster-underway-in-midwest/
Report Comment
“written by Savvy108″, it says at the end. If that’s you – excellent work!!
Report Comment
Yep, that’s me. Thanks for the feedback.
Since late May I’ve struggled to finish any article about this nuclear stuff. I even wrote about 30 pages of one piece, with more than 100 footnotes, but it was so depressing to see so much “bad news” about the Fukushima disaster in one article that I couldn’t even keep working on it myself!!
Who would want to read 30+ pages of news about the massive poisoning of the entire world?! Not me! So, it’s clear that shorter themed articles are the go. I’ll be working to get a few more of these themed pieces out there (making use of parts of that 30+ pages of effort!!) over the coming week.
Report Comment
Who would want to read 30+ pages of news about the massive poisoning of the entire world?!
Me! Please give us what you have, because the massive information blackout doesn’t help.
Report Comment
Yes, well it is true that some of us do want to know the facts, no matter how depressing. I guess I was more making a quip about how overwhelming this disaster is for any of us studying it closely (perhaps a little TOO closely at times, for some of us at least!!).
Thanks for the encouragement, in any case. I am currently working on re-organising the material in that 30+ pages into several smaller articles (maybe 5-6 articles), so keep an eye out for new links.
Report Comment
This single sentence from the “Underwater Nuclear Disaster in Midwest” struck me as a pretty good clue of how bad the situation is @ Calhoun;
“Red Cross closed its emergency shelter at Fort Calhoun, home of one of the nuclear facilities, and is now referring and transitioning evacuees to other shelters.”
YIKES!
Report Comment
Rumors swirl around Nebraska’s two nuclear plants
By ALGIS J. LAUKAITIS / Lincoln Journal Star Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2011
[there's a report that a Russian nuclear agency has accused President Barack Obama of covering up a nuclear near-meltdown on June 7 at Fort Calhoun.
In fact, said the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Omaha Public Power District, there was a fire in an electrical switchgear room that day, but the spent-fuel pool was in no imminent danger and a fire-suppression system extinguished it quickly.
The plant temporarily lost power to a pump that cools the spent-fuel pool, but power was switched to a backup pump, said OPPD, which runs Fort Calhoun. During the 90-minute interruption, the temperature of the pool increased]
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/article_0421ef3a-9dbd-11e0-8242-001cc4c03286.html
Report Comment
That’s an interesting article, especially due to how many times the word “rumor” is used (I count five times in the article plus one in the headline). Like the “rumors” in Japan about mass radioactive poisoning across the country in late March, as well as the “rumors” that the radioactive contamination will spread around the whole world, as well as any and all nasty “rumors” about “clean, safe, wonderful” nuclear power.
Whenever the word “rumor” is used so many times in a news article (especially relative to nuclear power) it is wise to question everything – the usual situation is that the “rumors” turn out to be the truth, though only much later. As we all know from following the Fukushima disaster.
Report Comment
Oh, and I do know that you question everything xdrfox, and I have greatly appreciated your many posts of highly relevant articles on the ENENEWS site throughout the 3+ months of this disaster. Thanks for all your efforts.
Report Comment
Thx Savvy,
Yes sadly we must question everything and as they say, Wake-up folks, if we smell smoke we should look for the fire, or burn. Unfortunately over my life time I have found too many lies laying under the falsehood of the truth with them in charge, (things are not as they are told)Our forefather asked us to constantly question Government as we did with the one we over threw, but now seem to be in bed with again for so many were sleeping and playing on our forefathers works that now are slipping away ! Government’s lie, thats what they do ! Vietnam 68-69
Report Comment
“I have found too many lies laying under the falsehood of the truth”
Yes XDR, it’s called:
“Where The Truth Lies”
And it’s everywhere you don’t want to see it, and getting terminal.
Report Comment
I will agree. This is cognitive plantation in masse…
Report Comment
University asks for radiation cleanup time
Thursday, June 23, 2011 2:05 PM
Jun. 23, 2011 (UPI NewsTrack) –
COLOMBIA, Mo., June 23 (UPI) — The University of Missouri says it wants a federal agency to give it more time to figure out how to deal with radiation found in a historic campus building.
The University’s Environmental Health and Safety office has removed some radiation from the basement and attic of Pickard Hall, but contamination still exists in pipes and ductwork behind walls, EHS Director Peter Ashbrook said.
Getting the radiation out of Pickard won’t be a simple task, as the building on the university’s Francis Quadrangle houses the Museum of Art and Archaeology and is on the National Register of Historic Places, he said.
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5250932/university-asks-for-radiation-cleanup-time
Report Comment
Bird sniffing the air for nukes ?
Report Comment
AT 921 PM CDT…A LEVEE ON THE MISSOURI RIVER FAILED 3 MILES NORTH
OF BROWNVILLE NEBRASKA…CAUSING FLASH FLOODING OF AREAS NEAR THE
LEVEE FAILURE. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE URGING
PEOPLE IN THE MISSOURI RIVER FLOOD PLAIN WEST OF INTERSTATE 29
IN ATCHISON COUNTY MISSOURI TO EVACUATE TO HIGHER GROUND AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE.
Report Comment
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE PHELPS CITY…LANGDON AND WATSON
WESTERN ATCHISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI…
Report Comment
THE MISSOURI RIVER AT BROWNVILLE.
* AT 10:00 PM THURSDAY THE STAGE WAS 44.4 FEET.
* FLOOD STAGE IS 33.0 FEET.
* RECORD FLOODING IS OCCURRING AND RECORD FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* FORECAST…THE RIVER WILL FALL SLIGHTLY BY FRIDAY MORNING DUE TO
THE LEVEE BREECH NORTH OF BROWNVILLE THEN RESUME RISING TO NEAR
44.7 FEET BY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. ADDITIONAL RISES MAY BE
POSSIBLE THEREAFTER.
* IMPACT…AT 44.0 FEET…WATER NEARS THE TOP OF THE FEDERAL LEVEES
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER.
Report Comment
Levees will be breached on purpose as the needed to control overall flood heigth levels increases. Remember the truck with explosives in news of late? I feel this just the beginning of this control method.
Report Comment