Published: June 19th, 2011 at 7:13 am ET
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Nebraska Floods: Nebraska Governor Requests Disaster Declaration, Suite 101 by Darla Sue Dollman, June 18, 2011:
According to Mike Wight, Public Information Officer for the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the situation continues to worsen each day. “It’s still raining in Montana,” Wight said. “Two weeks ago they had two more feet of snow in the Montana mountains. Depending on which state you are in, and where you are in that state, the waters in the Missouri and Platte Rivers are anywhere from 5 to 8 feet above flood level and they could be rising.” [...]
“[...] For the community as a whole, though, the biggest issue is the length of time that the water will stay above flood level. We expect that the water will remain at this level, or higher, for a couple of months. That’s a long time for a levee to hold back water.” [...]
Published: June 19th, 2011 at 7:13 am ET
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Not good news. I think we’ve all had enough radiation for now.
http://www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/
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Stop radioactive investments!
Support Greenpeace in stopping the banks to invest your money in nuclear facilities!
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/nuclear/stop-radioactive-investment/?thingstodo
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How do you define a mature technology?
When they interface with nature nukes are infinitely immature. Look at what the message of the nuclear genie implies:
You created me. I require your infallibility right from the conception stage to decontamination and entombing. And you are fallible, the embodiment of suicidal errors. Now I am free and I infallibly act to forbid the propagation of error, that is the human being and indeed all life for at least 100 million years. All life shut out for the next 4.32 billion years. This is what happens if you neglect to consider the cumulative effects of modern civilisation.
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+999
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@ PU239: Yes, there is definitely more than “enough” radiation for all on Earth already! That Nuclear Bailout site is a good one and that paragraph you quoted is a great summary of nuclear power.
Relative to the article discussing the Nebraska floods, it concludes with:
“Addendum: The Omaha Public Power District established a page on their website to discuss rumors currently circulating regarding the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station …”
There’s that word “rumors” again that we all know well from the news about Fukushima, given that many “official” news reports claimed that the severe health effects reported in Japan within days and weeks of the explosions in March were “malicious rumors” and so on.
It is certainly disturbing when such similar language is used about a nuclear plant in the USA that is currently known to be in an elevated state of alert.
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They have trouble balancing their above-board businesses (poor management)…they are making plenty of money from the military… in secret contracts for weapons.
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well I supose military dont need over 50 reactors to make their weapons, specially with the headcount they already have…
actually nuclear energy should be only considered for robotic space exploration…
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This world is over-weaponized several times over..
The US is the dominate military leader several times over.
It’s about money and the GAME.
The mindset of the modern military really isn’t much above street thug…in as much as any crumby deal can go down for weapons.
War is a profit making event.
Something like 80% of the military top brass go into private contracting.
Shoot..those folks would build weapons in their mother’s bedroom closet..
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No one has ever proven that intelligence is a desirable evolutionary trait.
Anyone who is considering building more of these dangerous things is not intelligent.
I’ve never believed that we are a rational animal.
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This is why humans are evolutionary failures..faulty rationale.
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Weapons get bigger..weapons get smaller…I lost my link to a Wired article ..it was an article about the use of DU in hand held weapons… frying the guys that hold them…(slowly of course).
It’s been proven that nuclear energy is economically inefficient for commercial energy production..
Nuclear power is the mistress of the military.
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This is from the Engineering News-Record:
“The record dam releases are expected to bring the Missouri River 5 to 7 feet above flood stage in most of Nebraska and Iowa before continuing into Missouri, where it may rise 10 feet above flood stage in several places and flow over the top of at least 11 rural levees. This summer’s Missouri River flooding could rival the record years of 1952 and 1993 in some places.
The river is expected to remain high at least into August because as the record releases from the dams continue.”
(June 14 dateline)
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according to this same article, two levees in Missouri have already failed.
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Nuclear energy is too dangerous for human beings. Enough said. First you can’t get near it when a disaster strikes. Second you can’t see it. Third, it spreads to the entire earth. Last, it stays around FOREVER! LOGIC TELLS US TO STAY AWAY FROM IT. Oh there’s one more. It KILLS.
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Yes, and remember…the reactors that are failing are using thirty year old technology to control the sun.
I don’t think we have the knowledge to handle something this dangerous and there are easier ways to boil water.
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I’ll FAN that statement. Logic tells us it’s dangerous but the Industry doesn’t care. They will fight tooth and nail to KEEP IT. We must demand better!
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Glasgow, Montana Conditions & Forecast
Today
70 °F T-storms
60% chance of precipitationTonight
56 °F T-storms
70% chance of precipitationTomorrow
67 °F Rain Showers
50% chance of precipitation
Glasgow, Montana (59230) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground
19 Jun 2011 … Monday morning… The National Weather Service in Glasgow has issued a * Flash Flood Watch for a portion of northeast Montana. …
http://www.wunderground.com/US/MT/Glasgow.html
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http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-nisas-nishiyama.html
#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: NISA’s Nishiyama Indicates There Is No Plan-B Right Now
if the Kurion-Areva-Toshiba-Hitachi contaminated water treatment system doesn’t work.
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They don’t have a Plan B. They barely have a Plan A.
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There is probably no way to construct the phrase “Plan B” in honourable japanese language.
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OT but quite fitting with all the Wars going on:
The Guardian: Eisenhower’s worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the b ombs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/16/eisenhower-fears-invent-enemies-buy-bombs
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Kaieda: We need N-plants / Calls on local residents to OK restart of suspended reactors
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110618002953.htm
Are you frigging kidding me?!?! Please Japan!!
INSIST PLANTS BE SHUT DOWN IMMEDIATELY!!
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But wait!!! Lookee here Kaieda!!
Over 80% of Japanese Nation want all 54 nuclear reactors to be decommissioned in poll
http://news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/2011/06/over-80-of-japanese-nation-want-all-54.html
You better back down on your statement Dude. Your not listening to THE PEOPLE!!
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Restart the plants, wait for another earthquake, great now you have 2 fukushimas. Don’t worry. 1 fukushima will only destroy 1/3 of japan, they still have 2/3s left.
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Speaking of recent start ups..
Cooper reactor 1..started up in 2010 after 22 years.
http://www.nppd.com/Newsroom/NewsRelease.asp?NewsReleaseID=428
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Seems to me that one of the main reasons wars are being started is to get rid of tons of nuclear waste by making tax payers foot the bill.
The keenest participants in all these artificially created wars (US,France,UK) also happen to be the ones which are most committed to “pacific” uses of nuclear power for energy production.
Not a coincidence methinks.
The nuclear industry and the military seem to be co dependent… which probably explains why nuclear power plant accidents etc are treated as if they are military secrets.
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Some of us are in the process of preparing for evacuation. It would be very helpful if people that have the time to keep abreast of the Omaha situation, if they could make a new post so we can just scroll down to the bottom and also if you could sum up the links so we don’t have to look at links and maps. Time crunch here and many of us are scrolling up and down the thread looking for info. Thanks heaps!
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We might need a special “red channel” for breaking alerts, instructions for evacuation, and so on.
Each post could go through Admin first.
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Good idea, Pu. I’d like also so see a link list for the sites people are demanding over and over again – like
- Youtube Fuki timelapse videos
- The “people’s map” of radiation
- a Fuki weather forecast
- Omaha valley weather forecast
…..
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i like the idea, and those posted by bread and butter below your post. and hi guys.
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Hi
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