Published: June 17th, 2011 at 6:47 am ET
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No danger seen at reactor, Omaha World-Herald, June 17, 2011:
Fort Calhoun was and continues to be one of the NRC’s most tightly monitored plants because of problems it had before the flooding.
[Victor Dricks, spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission] said the NRC has taken the unusual step of sending more inspectors and a branch chief to Fort Calhoun. A branch chief is a top regional regulator. [...]
Perhaps it’s just as well that Fort Calhoun got into trouble last year with federal regulators over flood preparedness. During routine inspections in June 2010, the NRC concluded that deteriorating conditions during catastrophic flooding could make sandbagging near the river difficult. [...]
[Now] the nuclear plant is in an all-out battle with the river.
Published: June 17th, 2011 at 6:47 am ET
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No danger to human health…at this time.
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This works for the Authorities in Japan !
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It seems Mother Nurture is at it again. Is there a growing message from the God’s concerning the harmful aspects of nuclear power? When will we all get on the same page.
I would think that the Chinese should have read these tea leaves by now. When are they going to weigh in and say NO to this kind of pollution?
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China: Nuclear-Power Projects Move Ahead Amid Safety Fears – TIME
28 Mar 2011 … After Japan, Will China Scale Back Its Nuclear Ambitions? … would suspend its approval process for new reactors, pending a safety review. …
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2061368,00.html
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When the powers that greed die of radiation sickness…..or……..when we all buy solar panels and say no more fuking nukes….I like either alternative.
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China has never struck me as caring about pollution in general.
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Anything announced by nuclear industry should be taken with huge amount of caution. Here is a proof that TEPCO is riging their live stream feed… http://radioactive.eu.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=217:proof-that-official-tepco-webcam-is-rigged&catid=38:fp-rokstories
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This above post becomes sort of annoying
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This weekend the waters should be at their highest. Just have to wait and see. If this reactor goes like fukushima the whole corn belt and central USA is gone forever.
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The whole corn belt gone forever it will either happen this time or next….what are we trading here? We could use a lot less energy and live with a lot less suffering…..why do we have to risk the USA? What do we get in return….doesn’t seem to be a good trade…..lets get a little smarter here and boycott energy til it’s provided in a way that doesn’t harm us….it’s possible, don’t be fooled by what the industry feeds you!
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sorry charlie, you really said it –
“We could use a lot less energy and live …”
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Lets not forget whats down stream and the possibilities that the brains that built this plant there seems did not care about the floods that accompany this river !
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That and then factor in Cali and Washington State accumulated contamination on their farms. Where will the food come from when we cant grow, eat and sell our own?
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***[Now] the nuclear plant is in an all-out battle with the river.***
The river will win.
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I wonder how many people would have voted for Obama if they realized the ‘change’ he assured you you could believe in would be a change back to a technology so dangerous that no president would touch it for decades? What a disappointment that the messianic harbinger of change turned out to be just another wannabe nuke salesman.
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obama..
the triumph of lies over truth.
the triumph of mega corp over humanity.
the triumph of war over a no profit peace.
the triumph of deceit over honesty.
the triumph of no change over real change.
the triumph of mutation over host cell.
the triumph of a fake birth certificate over real.
obama
when a lie starts at your birth.
why should your adult life have truth in it.
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Actually, we did get a change. But it was a change for the worse. Agreeing to poduce MOX in the US and recommissioning decaying nuclear facilities and agreeing to build new one, making the EPA shut up about Corexit, Sea Brat#4, and myriads of microbes to “eat up” the oil after the BP disaster, shutting down media coverage about environmental catastrophes, allowing tax cuts for the wealthy to be extended, approving and starting a new war without congressional approval, losing the House of Reoresentatives to the conservatives and libertarians, no support for single payer health insurance or any insurance at all for another 4 years, no curb on or prosecution of banking criminals, this is definitely a change for the WORSE.
Obama was elected to protect the environment. Instead he is allowing the environment to be completely and irreversibly destroyed. And he is allowing the MIC and banking industry to rule over everything.
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AlGoReal Yes-we-can = Vat-i-can CO2
Reality hits: Repost http://wp.me/pwIAV-19
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Okay this statement from the article is not exactly giving me confidence. An 8 ft tall rubber dam? Why not something permanent? Seems like they went on the cheap. And why not a 15 foot wall?
“Installing an approximately 8-foot-tall, 16-foot-wide water-filled tubular rubber dam. The dam encircles the reactor building, like a black snake, and holds the floodwaters at bay.”
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exclusive images of the rubber defensive structures for the omaha flood damaged nuke site.
from the makers of the fukishima radiation defence tents.
http://www.737373.co.uk/default.asp?iId=LGGJE
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Rubber baby buggy bumpers……
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Krhm. Big Business
http://www.waterstructures.com/Hooks/dams.html
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funny, super funny : )
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