Many containers of fuel to power pumps were washed away after breach at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant

Published: June 27th, 2011 at 8:58 am ET
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Event Notification Report for June 27, 2011, NRC, June 27, 2011:

Event Number: 46989
Facility: FORT CALHOUN
Event Date: 06/26/2011
Event Time: 10:45 [CDT]

Event Text
OFFSITE NOTIFICATION DUE TO PETROLEUM RELEASE TO THE MISSOURI RIVER

“At approximately 0125 CDT, the AquaDam providing enhanced flood protection for Fort Calhoun Station Unit 1 failed. This resulted in approximately 100 gallons of petroleum being released into the river after a protective barrier was breached and many fuel containers were washed out to the river. The fuel/oil containers were staged around the facility to supply fuel for pumps which remove water within the flood containment barriers. The spill was reported to the State of Nebraska at 10:45 AM CDT on 6/26/2011.

h/t anonymous

Published: June 27th, 2011 at 8:58 am ET
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70 comments to Many containers of fuel to power pumps were washed away after breach at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant

  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

    This is just insane.


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose

    …Seems all the plans were written on cocktail napkins.


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  • Darth

    Show me where in the Nuclear Safety plan it is mention to install an AquaDam to protect a nuclear plant. It’s all make it up as you go – just like in Fuku.


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    • Whoopie Whoopie

      It sure is like Fuku. No safety regulations, no upkeep, no maintenance. They all should be shut down.


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    • pg

      Its all about maximizing profits. Get this. In 2000, the owner of caterpillar diesel flipped during a speech criticizing the NRC. Apparently all the backup generators were small block Chevys converted to diesel instead of using a more expensive and reliable diesel such a caterpillar or even a ford. I dont know how many of you are familiar with Chevy small block diesels, I am VERY. In my opinion it is the worse diesel engine ever made. Best gasoline, but worse diesel. It was a contractor ‘bidder’ thing and chevy was the best price. They ran like garbage when they were brand new! That is why they stopped making them! In 2003 when the east coast grid was dropped, I believe there were around 15 failures of these generators. Some overheated, some kept shutting down needing manual restarts, some would not start at all, some even seized up! Imagine that! When there is a flood, grid loss, hurricane, tsunami, what ever, a diesel mechanic is our only hope! wow…


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      • Jaskal

        Interesting information.


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      • lokay5

        Small block Chevrolets converted to diesel? For use as nuclear plant backup power?

        BROWN FLAG!

        Gimme a link!


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      • Jebus Jebus

        I have some experience in this field, 30 years, and I do not recall a small block chevy diesel…
        I do remember a buick block diesel in the 80′s and yes it was a pile. Used a stanadyne pump mounted between the heads. It had a extreme aversion to water in the fuel, rusting the internals of the injection pump, causing goveror malfunction and starting issues. The erroneous logic was to remove the air filter and spray starting fluid into the intake. This most often caused an immediate rejection of the crankshaft, block webbing and all into the oil pan.
        I saw this on many occasions and converted many of these vehicles to a gas engine…


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  • Whoopie Whoopie

    Frum Forum just tweeted Fukashima Radiation ‘Poses No Health Threat’: CNN reports
    There should be a law against tweets containing untruths.


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  • sickputer2 sickputer2

    “Many fuel containers”?

    So 100 gallons leaked, but many containers washed away? How many? What was their volume? The multiple (maybe 8) railroad-car sized diesel engine backup generators burn thousands of gallons of fuel an hour from what I have read. So maybe they are going to have to start bringing in more fuel by barge or heavy lift helicopters. The Keystone cops just keep the bad news coming by the hour.


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    • Whoopie Whoopie

      3 Stooges? Multiplied by 10?


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    • BetaFlare

      The rubber levee leaks always and needs pumping to keep perimeter inside dry. These fire-hose pumps need gas generator power – when the grid has dived underwater. Canisters for the hoodsters to carry around…

      Clearly hoodster got tired, re tired the rubber with a knife… (tired of waiting the 90% depop plan mature)


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      • sickputer2 sickputer2

        Betaflare succinctly summarized the gas can floatation escape from the mother ship:

        >The rubber levee leaks always and needs pumping to keep perimeter inside dry. These fire-hose pumps need gas generator power – when the grid has dived underwater. Canisters for the hoodsters to carry around”

        Thanks…I forgot about the rubber dildo dam that blew out…>;-) I guess if the dumbass plant employees screwed on the lids tight some happy trot-liner or noodler will find the cans and be happy for his find. You just can’t make up crap like this happening…the plant workers must have meth mouth to make these kind of bloopers.


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    • jump-ball

      A hundred gallons of fuel by the wall
      A hundred gallons of fuel
      If one of those gallons should be washed away
      99 gallons of fuel by the wall.

      These guys are several gallons short of a full load alright.


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  • BetaFlare

    Minute details r not public like 90% depop papal plans. The details are rolled out at night, crises helped and never to be wasted.


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    • mikey

      Please explain depo papal plans please!


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      • BetaFlare

        Overpopulation is a state where too many mouths on this planet. This horrific phenomanae has been heroically vigorously fought by pope and his L0y0la loyolists since this was first found by the catholic malthusians in the 1500 AD. Most succesfull in this fight was Adolph the chorus boy. On top of the current methodical long time plan = General The Electric radiation, his latest arsenal has inluded Codex Alimentarius BANNING OF HEALTH …. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi1ltYxp7Qg

        Read more details http://wp.me/pwIAV-19 (repost)

        w w w . b e r e a n b e a c o n . o r g / a r t i c l e s / T h e _ P o p e s _ P l a n s _ o n _ o r g a n i z i n g . p d f

        etcetc


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        • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

          The pope fighting overpopulation???
          That’s why the Catholic church condemns birth control, use of condoms, abortions???


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          • BetaFlare

            Hellouu? Yawn -or- Time to start diggin? Its a long tunnel for ya to dig – to get out from under that MSM-pile…

            Never tried this ???
            http://wp.me/pwIAV-19 (repost)

            Try at least, need plenty of buckkeets from LIDL: papal honored emissary, the j€§uit priest Ante Pavelic collected serbian eyes in ‘em…

            Spend a week here, then return.
            http://www.srpska-mreza.com


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          • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose

            The Popes concern is filling the coffers of the Vatican.
            The Vatican and the Jesuits like the good life too much to walk with the people.
            The Pope would like to decrease the amount of non-Catholics…but will do nothing to control Catholic populations…because they are the future faithful and provide the TITHE.


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          • BetaFlare

            Sm links in case other ppl here float on MSM-planet, or studied in L0yola University ?

            Just some links.

            - “The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of L0yola served as the foundation; the supreme law was absolute obedience, the execution of any order whatsoever without question. Himmler himself, as Reichsfuhrer of the SS, was the general of the order. He owned an extremely large and excellent library on the Jesuit Order and for years would sit up late studying the extensive literature. Thus he built up the SS organization according to the principles of the Jessuits.”
            - “I am now as before a Cat holic and will always remain so.” – Adolf Hitler.
            Hitler, speaking of the Gestapo chief said, “I can see (main holocaust executioner) Himmler as
            our Ignatius of L0yola [reverend incest Father].”
            - …Goebbels, Bormann, Kaltenbrunner, Hoess…studied for the priesthood… Karl Marx maintained close ties with the Jesuits and Freemasonry, The Communist International was first simply known as the League of the Just, a branch of the papal Illuminati. Stalin, Lenin, Beria, Roosevelt, Churchil etcetc – all j€§uits.
            - All US lawbr… err lawmakers have a common Red Mass for a mass mrderer… jessuit Thomas More. He is now a ‘saint via pap al blessing’, man whom all these revered jessuits pray for in the RED MASS (see link below). Man whom Pop e sent personally to oversee the Bible-In-English translator Tyndale – burned alive.
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edVd6-SJgs
            http://www.angelfire.com/on/3angels/vaticannazis.html
            http://www.truthcontrol.com/node/karl-marx
            http://1phil4everyill.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/appendix-c-the-relationship-between-the-roman-church-and-national-socialism-1of2/
            http://www.illuminati-news.com/0/PicturesOfPapalInfiltration.htm

            Ignatius of Loyola, founder of papal jesuit order:
            Old dictionaries contain the word ‘jesuit’.
            Below it ‘jesuital’
            Below thet, ‘jesuit assasin’ …their main trade.
            Jordan Maxwell; Vatican Assassins 1 of 12
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZmusIClD4


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          • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

            Thanks, you two, for the neverending effort to convince everyone around of the “hooded evil”. To be honest with you, I couldn’t care less about the pope and the catholic church.
            I respect your opinion, please respect mine.


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          • Net

            The Pope is not hurting anyone. Why are you making such a big deal about it? Ignore it if you don’t like it and respect other people’s religion. Why don’t you make a big deal about religious people who are killing/stoning or cutting heads off? or governments that repress. Those are the types you should be worrying about. just saying…


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        • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose

          Me ..either ..they wear dresses and petticoats ..finer than mine.


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          • BetaFlare

            Nice gold laden silk suits: See no evil, feel no evil, hear no evil – be happy and keep breathing deep…

            No need to convince anybody, solid facts wont move. Here given to mikey after request.

            Displayin facts serve also a second, more important, eternal purpose: who those who reject the love for Truth – will spend eternity with liars.

            (Eternity, one of the 11 dimensions, void of time)


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        • Some of my bosses are Jesuits and they are very nice people as I can see…


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  • tomb1

    There are only two explanations for this:

    1) Only idiots work in NPPs. They store fuel for the flood pumps in the area possibly affected by flooding. W T F!

    2) There is a master plan to destroy NPPs and the areas around them.


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    • Whoopie Whoopie

      # 2 is interesting. Brings out the Conspirisy Theorist in me. And no wonder we end up thinking that way. The Gov makes us, as we have found out so much about their evil ways LATELY.


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      • Whoopie Whoopie

        So reading the other thread where fire is affecting the Plant in New Mexico? Wow…we’ve got troubles everywhere we look with these plants.


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      • Joviation

        Nuke plant owners have been off the hook, and US taxpayers on the hook, for cleanup since 1957. No wonder they are in no hurry to fix anything. Their liability is limited to a total of $58 Billion. Again from counterpunch:

        “The Price-Anderson Act of 1957 provides clear evidence that industry and government are holding back on what they know about nukes. That legislation limited the liability of power companies in the event of a catastrophic meltdown. The same politicians who support renewal of that act blather out the other side of their mouth how government must bow to free enterprise. If they truly believed in free enterprise, they would repeal Price-Anderson and replace it with legislation requiring the owner of every nuke to purchase insurance on the open market which would cover all costs that could be potentially associated with an explosion and melt down.”
        http://www.counterpunch.org/fitz06272011.html

        Except no bank or insurance co will sell it to them. They required builders of the first 100 or so nuke plants to obtain 100% taxpayer subsidized loan guarantees to build at all. And BTW more than 50% of them defaulted without finishing their building projects, sticking our “deficit” with the bills.

        Too bad there mayn’t be any taxpayers left, didn’t think of that, did they?


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        • Great article. The sub-headings alone tell the story:

          * Nuclear power is based on lies

          * Advocates of nuclear power know that they are lying

          * The nuclear industry puts public relations before public safety

          * “Environmental particularism” poses an extreme danger to protecting the Earth

          * Claims that society must choose between fossil fuels and nukes are 100% false

          * Solar and wind offer no alternative to fossil fuels and nuclear power

          Once again, CP comes through with an excellent article. Thanks for sharing the link.


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    • BetaFlare

      Not to worry: The flood pumps have no need for fuel after the dam was knifed at night. Happy radiating farmers will pick these free 5 gallon canister downstream…


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      • BetaFlare

        Flood Pumps Clarified. With given info, I am quite positive that these fuel canisters were used only for the perimeter pumps – pumpin the leaked water inside the rubber levee protected perimeter.

        When the levee was broken, all just floated downstream. (Note that the levee is really tough material and needs intentional hooded nightly attack…)

        Totally different issue is what has now happened to the plant and its nuke cooling pumps.


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

      I think it’s #1.
      Worldwide.


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    • I’m putting my money on #2 for certain. Globally.


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  • Prior to berm deflatement !!!

    This means that the River Flooding Stage is at 31.29 Feet which corresponds to 1006.58 Feet.

    NOW, see some elevation Maps of Fort Calhoun that show that Grade (ground floor) Elevation is approximately 1007′.

    Elevation Maps for:
    Emergency Diesel Generators – Grade Level – Some flooding of these are probable. Diesels Rooms are Centered on Page and are “Generator Diesel 1 and 2″

    Raw Water Cooling Pump Elevation – Also approximately 1007 Feet Above Mean Sea Level. There are several of these but this is typical. If the Motor Floods, then this pump will not run.

    Safeguards Room – There are two of these rooms, each responsible for redundant Cooling Functions for Decay Heat Removal and Spent Fuel Pool Cooling. Note that they are on the Lowest Elevations (971 Feet) – Flooding is a major concern.
    http://www.homeland-defense4u.com/Fort%20Calhoun%20Fire%20and%20Flood.htm


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    • 1006.58 Feet flood level+
      two of these rooms, each responsible for redundant Cooling Functions for Decay Heat Removal and Spent Fuel Pool Cooling. Note that they are on the Lowest Elevations (971 Feet)
      1006.58
      -971
      ——
      35.58 feet blub blub !


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  • jump-ball

    Reading about the punctures, leaks and mishaps at Calhoun Lagoon reminds me of the month of disasters at my first summer at camp Lakanuki.


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  • M Curie

    Don’t know if this has been posted before, but this is the link to NRC reportable events.

    http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/en.html#en46965

    Note they are not updated in a timely manner.

    By any chance did the “many” drums of fuel rolling away cause the berm damage?


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  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

    I think the water levels forecast upstream at Soiux city needs to be adapted to reality:
    http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=fsd&gage=sscn1&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1
    Also Hamburg (near Brownville) doesn’t look too good either:
    http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=oax&gage=hmbi4&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1


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  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

    I wonder why on the top of this page there’s an ad link “Nuclear future is here” – linked to the Oil & Energy Investors page selling “bathtub sized reactors”, showing us the “inside access to extreme wealth”.
    Probably Admin can’t do much about it – but the Oil & Energy Investor in Baltimore, MD is awaiting my call.
    Phone: 1-888-384-8339


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  • anne anne

    Flooding – The worst is yet to come

    I. Nuclear crises continue to rage in two spots on Earth: Nebraska and Japan. Japaense doctors are urging residents to move!

    The future of nuclear power seems to be getting more bleak by the week.

    NEWS BRIEF: “Fukushima residents’ urine now radioactive”, Japan Times, June 27, 2011

    II. Meanwhile, the nuclear crisis in Nebraska is either accelerating or easing, depending upon whom you are basing your facts.

    NEWS BRIEF: “Flooding: The worst is yet to come”, Omaha.com, June 26, 2011

    III. This flooding disaster is giving the Federal Government the opportunity to deploy its recent creation – the Northern Military Command.

    NEWS BRIEF: “Northern Command team ordered to flood-ravaged Nebraska”, The Gazette (Colorado), June 25, 2011
    http://www.cuttingedge.org/newsletters/newsalert.htm


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  • StillJill StillJill

    Yes,…or also toll free: I-800-DEADBaby


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  • pg

    I say this is BS. NRC law was 7 days backup diesel fuel on site for generators. If they wanted extra fuel, they would need big containers like 55gallon drums, and many of them. Much wiser to fly in a refuel helicopter, which is what they better have rigged at this time.


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  • pg

    The 7 day fuel tank should be a large white cylindrical type tank, near the backup generators which will be near the pumps. Could even be that white tank in the very from in this image. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X3uR6Yv4tm0/TfktTvvsgJI/AAAAAAAAuhs/fuRpj58dHkA/s1600/pict104.jpg


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  • Buck-O

    xdrfox, great post. I have been looking at the plant layout for an hour.

    http://www.homeland-defense4u.com/Fort%20Calhoun%20Fire%20and%20Flood.htm

    Someone who knows electrical engineering
    needs to take a very close look at the two small diesel generators and what they are hooked up to. It might explain why they left 2/3 of the core in the reactor vessel.//


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  • Washington’s Blog June 27, 2011
    Berm Protecting Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Breaks … Plant Flooded, on Emergency Diesel Generator
    http://cutdc.com/


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  • antineo13

    Hi everyone, first post here. I’ve been here a few times and read quite a few posts. I don’t recall seeing anything about HAARP weather modification technology. Weather modification has been around since at least the sixties and there are numerous weather modification businesses around the world and easily found on the internet. The US government/military being listed as a big customer on some of their websites.

    For about 2 months I have been viewing “HAARP RINGS” and “SCALER SQUARES” and other anomalies on internet weather radars, mostly Intellicast.
    http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx?location=&weather=hdRadarSmoothPaletteA

    These HAARP RINGS and SCALER SQUARES(tecnology) are resposible for the flooding that is going on. I saw this comming more than a month ago as I saw the massive HAARP RINGS over Montanna almost every day for weeks in May and first of June. Record amounts of rain and snow are the results, as designed.

    A good informative and example of HAARP RINGS and Squalar Squares is this short video “4/13/2011 — Texas to Minnesota– ‘HAARP RINGS’ and ‘SCALAR SQUARES” – 24-48 hours from now”.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYHzQRxNdDI

    Last night (Sunday) from 11 to 12 midnight I saw massive HAARP RINGS in the midwest again. What happens is, 24-48 hours after the HAARP RINGS, the epicenter of a storm (up to a tornado) will center up on the center of where the Haarp ring was. Due to the HAARP RINGS that I saw on Sunday evening, in the next 24-48 hours the following locations will be hammered with the epicenter of the storm and/or tornado that will pass through the area. Windsor Kansas, Canton and Beresford South Dakota, Aurora Nebraska, Westfield and Packwaukee Wisconsin, Goshen and New Market Ohio, and possibly Sandwich and Hinckley Illinois (also possibly the hardest hit). When I named two towns it looked like the center was between the two towns. When one town was named, the center looked to be near the town, but not necessarily centered exactly on the town. It’s hard to be that precise in most cases. These HAARP RINGS were still there at 4 AM. Could mean really massive storms.

    You can go to the link to Intellicast where you can see the HAARP RINGS for yourself as they occur. The center of the rings is where the epicenter of a storm will hit 24-48 hours later. You probably wont see the entire ring, but will see sections of the ring/circle and or sections/straight lines of the Sqaler Squares as they occur. Down at the bottom of the picture you can start the “loop” feature and put it in motion. Go to the You Tube link provided above
    for user “dutchsinse” and watch some of his videos to learn more about weather radar and HAARP.

    I expect there will be those that will scream bull. I say, learn the facts first. The following link contains the facts that cannot be disputed and prove that HAARP is a weather modification weapon that is used as a weapon by the US government/military.

    “All The Proof In The World: HAARP Is Wrecking Havoc Worldwide”

    http://theintelhub.com/2011/06/18/all-the-proof-in-the-world-haarp-is-wrecking-havoc-on-the-world/

    Saturday night there were massive Haarp Rings over the midwest also. 24 hours later and massive storms, although I didnot pinpoint the centers like I did Sunday night. They are not going to let up on this flooding period. Those nuclear reactors are doomed. I don’t think that it will be needed, but if TPTB are unable to destroy the nukes with the rain and/or snow by shear amounts alone, they will use Haarp (earthquake machine) to destroy whatever dams that are necessary to finish the job.

    ANGELS DON’T PLAY THIS HAARP

    http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/haarp/angels_dontplay/angels_dontplay.htm#Contents


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  • Novamind

    @antineo13 Thanks for the Information.


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  • antineo13

    Update to my previous post(June 28- 3:56AM). The following HAARP RINGS were visable at 6:30PM and/or 9:30PM on June 28, 2011, via Intellicast Weather Radar.

    Between Franklin and Red Cloud Nebraska, Seeley Lake, Sheridan and Great Falls Montanna. Scaler Square was also seen north of Great Falls at 6:30 AND 9:30PM.

    Cheyenne Wyoming, Vale Idaho, Fountain Colorado and a Scaler Square centered up north and south between La Grande and Elgin Oregon.

    Vail Arizona, Keller Texas, Fritch Oklahoma, Goodland Kansas, Fort Smith Arkansas and Stonewall Louisiana.

    Golconda Nevada, and it appears as if something that was not natural was effecting the storm in Califoria, something off the coast and over the Pacific. Instead of the storm tracking north to south,it went south to north with part of it going back out to the ocean, apparently for round 2. Same thing happened with the last weather front that moved through, and this time of year there should not be any storms, especially the size of and the abnormal low temperatures with each storm. What TPTB are doing in this regard(west coast) is causing the storms to rain out the radiation in the sky from Fukushima. The rain, hale and snow brings the radiation down big time and is the most effective weapon used with a nuclear bomb/dirty bomb and/or radiation war/attack. It contaminates the water, ground, air and the food.

    In the midwest, they get all the above and will use the floods to take out the Nuclear Reactors so that we have our own Fukushima.

    And yes it is INSANE! TPTB are PSYCOPATHS! You cannot use logic to explain their actions, because there is no logical answer for their doing this. Their goal has always been depopulation and this is an extermination event.

    Nuclear anything is insane and is an exterminating means. This is why it appears as if the nuke workers/contractors are so inept. These reactors were designed to fail and are managed to fail. They do absolutetly nothing to end Fukushima, same as the Gulf of Mexico. Fort Calhoun is going down. The continued use(daily) of HAARP RINGS/TECHNOLOGY over the Missouri River Watershed is all the proof needed. They could use the same technology to stop the rain, as they do use it to create droughts when it serves them best.

    Check out the links I provided and you will see the HAARP RINGS. They are not natural and in no way would these rings/circles and squares be turning up on the radar without manmade interfering period. They also use some type of rays and or beams which I have witnessed via Intellicast. This link to a short video demonstrates these anomalies.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL_z5RdJRks

    Check out my predictions and see that I made the right call, you can too. It’s easy! Maybe if enough people wake up we can put a stop to these psycopaths and salvage something for the next generation.


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  • catweazel

    tepco busy cleaning….
    when they die at last there is a photo …
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mggqBLAvB7o&feature=youtu.be


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  • catweazel

    sry missposting, to many open windows.sry sry


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