Published: September 12th, 2011 at 7:57 pm ET
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Nuke plant fire gets closer look, Omaha World Herald by Nancy Gaarder, September 12, 2011:
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending a special team of inspectors to Nebraska to learn more about a fire at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station not long after flooding [...]
The Omaha Public Power District, which owns the plant, has said that it does not believe the June 8 fire was related to flooding [...]
The fire briefly disabled the plant’s ability to cool its spent fuel pool. [...]
Regulators have said the plant not resume operations until officials know what caused the fire. [...]
h/t Anonymous tip
See also Fire knocks out spent fuel cooling at nuclear plant near Omaha -- Operating under heightened alert level because of nearby flooding on Missouri River -June 10th, 2011
Published: September 12th, 2011 at 7:57 pm ET
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break.
brakes are on your car.
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Smart pants here??
Lol
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Mother Earth is telling us to quit fucking with nuclear energy!
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
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Fukushima Report: From Hong Kong
Tonight, among other guest, we have Yoichi Shimatsu, from Hong Kong with his Fukushima Report.
Appears to be the last guest during the broadcast starting at 10:00 PM EDT until 1:00 AM EDT.
http://www.rense.com/
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P.S. Click on “Listen.”
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here’s the App, live feed for Rense Radio “Jeff Rense Program”
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/livefeeds/16k.asx
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Duck Duck Goose.
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oopsy-daisy! TPTB are not sleeping well AT ALL these past few days! Ahh shucks!
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i think the nuke finance mob,have a bigger sweat on, wondering how to save the hundreds of billions invested in this ridiculous water boiling fiasco!!!
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Search back through a thousand years of history and find me one instance where the common folk didn’t end up paying for the mistakes made by their ‘betters’.
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“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending a special team of inspectors to Nebraska to learn more about a fire at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station not long after flooding”
Didn’t they already send that team in when the bubble..err doughnut..err Berm got skewered…?
http://enenews.com/nrc-takes-unusual-step-sending-inspectors-top-regional-regulator-omaha-nuke-plant-photo
How many special teams do they have?
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Here are two good links from inside Japan with English Subtitles:
http://australiancannonball.com/2011/09/13/mr-kino-speaks-of-how-tepco-have-worked-the-nuclear-power-plant/
http://australiancannonball.com/2011/09/13/how-many-times-must-we-be-exposed-to-radiation/
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brilliant finds again ac!! the doctor was amazing!!! should be two headlines here!! thanks!
peace
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@arclight – No problem. These videos are getting harder to find. YouTube search is becoming a waste of time. I just consistently check people I know have put up revealing videos in the past. Both these videos have a handful of views and they have been up for days!
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YouTube may be messing with the search engines on key words, wouldn’t be the first time !
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I submitted this to Admin earlier…
http://enenews.com/discussion-thread-september-12-18-2011/comment-page-1#comment-130203
It really should be a thread starter….
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Absolutely Incredible Video of Japanese Doctor Decrying nuclear power and weapons Cannonball!
THANK YOU!
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I encourage anyone lucky enough to have geiger counters to keep checking, especially in that area. Then please, post.. post.. post.. your findings, even if it is in the safe limits, just to give the people an extra sigh of relief.
I really don’t like that we have all this radiation around us. Life is hard enough without man made trouble to contend with.
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Still getting .15 to .20 here, Willamette Valley. No rain in a long time. I will be traveling across the country to Florida soon (ailing parents in their 90s) and will take readings wherever I can.
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mcSv. Sorry.
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Risabee,
What are your counts per minute on a ten minute average?
I have been getting a consistant 19 to 20 cpm’s (air reading) averaged and graphed over days. I am curious if this will go up after thursdays rain forecast here in SW Wash.
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Have a safe trip risabee, sorry your parents are not feeling well.
It will be interesting what it says on your counter in Florida. I also have some family there.
I have to admit. I really only understand CPM on a ten minute average.
Thank you for the readings though.
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“Leas: Entergy’s case to keep operating Vermont Yankee falls of its own weight”: http://vtdigger.org/2011/09/12/leas-entergys-case-to-keep-operating-vermont-yankee-falls-of-its-own-weight/
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Just wanted to respond…so far, the geiger counter readings that we’ve done in the Bay Area (Marin, SF, East Bay) have been within the normal range. It hasn’t rained here for a long time (once recently, but someone was borrowing the GC)so that may make a difference. It seems like Canada has gotten some prety high readings; maybe it’s just where it’s concentrating, I don’t know.
I have tried strapping it on my bike just to see what I get. It’s interesting, for the most part it reads normal, but every once in a while it jumps up to a high reading. I am wondering if it might be hitting a hot particle…just my amateur suspicion, does anyone know?
Although it makes me feel a little less concerned, I know the geiger counter isn’t detecting alpha radiation, so it could be missing some important stuff. Also, I still have been pretty sporadic about it, trying to fit it into a busy life. So I can’t say I have thoroughly checked. But at least for now I feel a little less freaked out.
I will be checking more. I plan on testing water filters, air filters, more gutters, etc. when I get a chance.
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Thanks for the update.
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Normal in socal too, although we had our first big rains in a long time a couple days over the past week. Readings by the ground spiked a bit just after the rain compared to readings higher above the ground. But to be fair I hadn’t been checking the ground before the rain. Air readings were no different after the rain.
The most interesting find with the geiger counter so far has been radioactive depression glass. There’s an old green glass jug we got at an antique store and the readings spike when the Geiger counter is near it. Found a couple more pieces at my parents’ house.
They used to use uranium to get the coloring in the early 1900s.
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Hi Guys,
I think I found something quite serious. Please give me feedback as I’m not sure.
http://australiancannonball.com/2011/09/13/why-the-gamma-radiation-spike-in-tecopashoshone-california-on-september-8th/
I may have to delete this post if I haven’t. This is my own research and I only work in IT.
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Definitely interesting…
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I think there could be a connection.
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I’d guess it has something to do with things getting kicked up from Nevada. Shoshone is just west of the Nevada Test Site where most of the nuclear weapons were tested in the continental USA. Apparently they were bombarded with fallout regularly and probably still get it when the wind blows the right direction.
I don’t think it’s fuku related because Shoshone hardly gets any rain (Death Valley is also next to Shoshone). Probably not San Onofre related either because it is a long shot for the wind to make it there from San Onofre. Check readings in Riverside county or around the city of Chino for what probably would end up being downwind from the plant.
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That gamma reading of 29 has never happened before. I don’t think it’d Fuku related. I’m leaning towards the first official evidence in history of a solar flare knocking a npp offline. Check all the dates. Normal reading is 15. What are the chances of a 29?
I hope Gundersen or someone looks at this. I think the implications are very serious and California just dodged a bullet.
Plus it knocked many things offline.
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Plus the 29 happened the same day as the massive blackout. It is a perfect pair.
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I’m saying the flare caused the gamma reading and blackout.
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My first thought when I heard about the power outage was a solar flare. The news said that it was a human error, but who knbows?
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“Communications satellites will be obliterated, too. This, of course, will halt nearly all news propaganda distribution across the planet, causing tens of thousands of people to instantly die out of the sheer fear of suddenly having to think for themselves……”
http://www.naturalnews.com/033564_solar_flares_nuclear_power_plants.html#ixzz1Xqhkz5Ju
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Here’s my personal opinion.
When a 30 year old, amped up (extra enriched uranium), increased pressure (Over 2000 psi), pressurized water reactor, scrams within a couple of seconds, there is not much margin for error in the time it takes for the core to heat up. If that scram is “late” and cooling flow is interrupted for the time it takes to get the gensets up and producing, there will be hydrogen production. All reactors have a provision to vent hydrogen (BWR’s) and or excess pressure (PWR’s) so that they don’t do a hindenberg. They vent it or flame it away. When that release happens and we all know that they sometimes vent even without a scram event, then they also vent Iodine 131.
End of story…
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Cool…we have twitter on this site now! I’ve never twittered before, but I’m always open to trying something new…
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http://imgur.com/a/uwrJx
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Great images – can you contact me? Trying to make docu on all this. Live here in Seattle.
Kurt
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Ft Calhoun…what a surprise…berms broke long ago and we all believed everything was still ok?
…Who in the Wide Wide World of Sports is gonna believe anything the World Wide Nuclear Industry is gonna P.R.?
…The P.R.’rs are all Ponzie Lies just like the World Banking system’s.
Party like its 1999 folks.
red red wine
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Power Reactor Event Number: 47260
Facility: FORT CALHOUN
Region: 4 State: NE
Unit: [1] [ ] [ ]
RX Type: (1) CE
NRC Notified By: KLINT KUDLACEK
HQ OPS Officer: STEVE SANDIN Notification Date: 09/13/2011
Notification Time: 13:00 [ET]
Event Date: 09/13/2011
Event Time: 08:22 [CDT]
Last Update Date: 09/13/2011
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY
10 CFR Section:
50.72(b)(3)(xiii) – LOSS COMM/ASMT/RESPONSE
Person (Organization):
GREG PICK (R4DO)
Unit SCRAM Code RX CRIT Initial PWR Initial RX Mode Current PWR Current RX Mode
1 N N 0 Cold Shutdown 0 Cold Shutdown
Event Text
LOSS OF TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTER VENTILATION
“VA-106, TSC HVAC Unit VA-107 Rooftop Condensing Unit, tripped off and attempts to restart were unsuccessful. The cause of VA-106 tripping is unknown at this time. Troubleshooting is in progress.
“This condition renders the Technical Support Center unavailable for Emergency Planning Responses. Approved compensatory actions are to relocate personnel to alternate facilities if required. This condition is being reported pursuant to 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(xiii) for Loss of Emergency Preparedness Capabilities.”
The licensee informed the NRC Resident Inspector
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Lets move on and bring more solar. Lets do more. Please sign my petition to the President for more clean tech funding. http://signon.org/sign/increase-government-support.fb1?source=c.fb&r_by=548645
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