NYT on Ft. Calhoun: Equipment ‘nicked’ 8 ft high, 2,000 ft long berm causing it to deflate

Published: June 26th, 2011 at 7:07 pm ET
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Concern at Nebraska Reactors as Floodwaters Rise, New York Times, June 26, 2011:

[...] Another reactor, Fort Calhoun, took two steps backward on Sunday. In the pre-dawn hours, a piece of heavy equipment nicked a temporary rubber berm, 8 feet high and 2,000 feet long, and it deflated. And water there began to approach the switchyard, where grid power enters the complex, so operators started up their diesel generators. [...]

Published: June 26th, 2011 at 7:07 pm ET
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49 comments to NYT on Ft. Calhoun: Equipment ‘nicked’ 8 ft high, 2,000 ft long berm causing it to deflate

  • WARLOC WARLOC

    This can not be real. Who the fuck would run heavy equipment in such a tight and dangerous area. Even if they were trying to reenforce the wall to hold back more water WHAT FRIGGN MORON would allow any heavy Equipment near the last stand against the river. Is TEPCO in on this power plant????” REALLY CRIMINAL CHARGES are in order for all involved.


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    • It is unreal and insane. Perhaps they were using heavy equipment due to a pre-existing emergency at Ft Calhoun plant that no one has been informed about publically? Perhaps they were trying to fix something already serious, in other words, and have not made it even more serious. Criminal charges for all who know the dangers of ionising radiation and have pushed nuclear power to all regardless.


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      • Should have been: “… and have NOW made it even more serious.”


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      • Whoopie Whoopie

        Put them all in PRISON!! This is screwed!


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      • NoPrevarication NoPrevarication

        What is downstream from Fort Calhoun? Kansas City, MO (all federal records stored here); St. Louis, MO… Now let’s see. Bradley Manning at Ft. Leavenworth. Lots of prisoners (those FEMA camps will come in handy) And on and on to YES! Do you know what it means to be in New Orleans?

        Anyone who read Jared Diamond’s book “Collapse” knows that every society eventually destroys itself. No thought is being given by anyone in charge as to what we are doing; not just with nuclear power, but with nanotechnology, the use of fossil fuels, genetic engineering, EPA sampling for radioactivity, and so forth and so on. We all now know that all of our leaders are failures.


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        • BetaFlare

          Anyone who reads Bible, knows that humankind eventually destroys itself.

          All this self destruction circulates around the double-headed eagle – the fish god Dagon (which hat all its priests still carry while playin christians), later re-incarnation is j€§uits (theses papal Mass murderers have at least 5 unuversities in US and helping in this current depop op).

          The end master in disguise can be seen in reveleation 17 – and nuclear demise is well depicted (u need original language). Human disease to love lies – MSM etc – is the reason behind.

          Here all good originally taught j€§uits will now start the Papal Pill Offering, askin what do I smoke etc… just wait posts popping here like mushrooms.

          For the few Truth seekers, http://wp.me/pwIAV-19 (repost)


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    • Regardless of the potential for criminal charges, this situation proves a VERY important fact. Accidents can occur at nuclear power plants just as they can with any other technological anything. The difference being, a single “operator error” (= fuck up) at a nuclear power plant can potentially kill millions or even billions.

      Is this worth the risk? That’s the question people who are asleep to all this nuclear catastrophe news need to be able to answer sometime soon. Of course, there is only one sane answer to the question: Is it worth the risk? And that is: NO.


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    • alasanon

      It’s a disaster overdose…My family lives near the Gulf. This is all too similar… the lack of transparency by Fed. agencies… the “mistakes”… the precious lost time with devastating consequences… It’s getting old. Pray. And take action!!


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    • Discordian

      Looks like they are doing everything they can to precipitate an emergency. Can there be any doubt left that core meltdown is the goal of this “historic flooding event”?


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      • It certainly does seem to be the goal. As I pointed out to some friends the other day, the day that the US government officially declared an emergency for the two Nebraska counties with these plants was an interesting number: 6-22.

        The date that the disaster happened in Japan was: 3-11.

        So, doubling months and days independently, we have 6-22 being double 3-11.

        Are the rulers trying to tell us something?

        That is, are they saying that they are “doubling” the nuclear catastrophe now?


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      • tony wilson

        nasa and family have known something was comin for a while now.

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm33qNR2mVA&feature=related

        A few quotes by Prince Philip:

        Reported by Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), August, 1988:

        “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”


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        • BetaFlare

          Philip is a high je§uit – tha papal depop agenda is inbred into all his Saxo-Coburg -roman lineage (had to hide their name, changed it to Windsor 1917. No thats the CHANGE…)

          Freemas0ns; introduced via R0tary, Li0n etc clubs into this shining path; oaths are taken on every step. This forms a vast unseen j€§uit disciplined papal army around the globe, inside every institution, business, police, politics, media…

          I.U.0.M. – White Degree; Master Ancient Scottish Builders etcetc; oath:

          (I promise) That my breast shall be the sacred repository of his secrets when delivered to me as such, murder, treason, felony and all offenses contrary to the Law of God or the ordinances of the Realm,…
          All these several points and others I promise to observe without evasion, equivocation or mental reservation of any kind under no less a penalty, on the violation of them, than to have my body severed in two, my bowels torn therefrom and burnt to ashes in the centre, and those ashes scattered before the four cardinal points of Heaven, so that no trace or remembrance of me shall be left amongst men, more particularly among Master Mechanics: …
          Jubela: O, that my throat had been cut serves from ear to ear, my tongue torn out and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea at low water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours …
          I solemnly promise on my word of honor that I will always obey the mandates of this Grand and Noble Order, and that I will forever keep secret the mysteries that shall be shown me tonight. I further promise that I will always treat the members of this order at my expense when reminded of this obligation, and have my bowels opened at regular intervals. I also promise to pay all bills contracted by members of this order. …

          Military Order of the Serpent, Ritual of the Degree of Kh atapunan:

          …Never shall its mysteries pass my Ups
          Outside the holy circle.
          Never shall I refuse to receive thee or thy Virus
          When thou comest into our midst;
          And this vow, O Snake, swear I
          By the Sword, the Cord and the Flame.
          If ever in thought, word or deed
          I am false to Kh atee Puna,
          May my death be lingering and wretched;
          May my soul be of the pale company
          Of horrid wraiths who haunt the mountain;
          And may my bowels be ripped out
          And cast into the flames of destruction. …

          See whole blog http://wp.me/pwIAV-19 (repost)


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    • Remember what I said about, Murphy Law, … well ~


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    • westcoastgirl westcoastgirl

      Did they really think that a giant inner tube was going to do a lot of good?


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    • maaa

      Human Error caused Chernobyl, Fukushima, and now Fort Calhoun. They burst their own dam.


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  • Lee Binder

    aha. See, when they tell us, everything will be fine, nothing will happen, they do that based on the realism that everything they do occurs exactly as they planned. Human error (oh sorry, heavy equipment will be running around freely all by itself at late night …) does NOT need to be even pre-considered because – they are all pros and therefore *beyond* human error. So the headline in a few days might be “Overworked operator of heavy equipment caused biggest nuclear disaster in US history”. But wait, until then the story will be revised because luckily the incident wasn’t filmed: “Technical malfunction led to problems at nuclear power station”.

    How do I know such stuff … :-|


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    • Yep, seems you were typing your comment right as I was typing mine above.

      The ‘ol human error factor is never factored in when discussing the illusion of nuclear power “safety”. Nor is the axiom: technology is not reliable (and inevitably fails).


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  • Jebus Jebus

    This just can’t be real were my thoughts exactly.
    Is this just some bullshit to turn our attention from the real shit that happened already…FUKU?
    I mean we got douched with radiation and are continuing to be exposed.
    WTF


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  • NoNukes NoNukes

    How is this possible? Are they trying to get our minds off of R4′s SFP? It is hard to follow all of it. I’m developing OCD.


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  • Jebus Jebus

    This is The United States of America or so I thought…
    We are supposed to be able to have a say in things that truly affect us.
    We are supposed to have leaders, that we elected, that make decisions in our best interest.
    We are supposed to be UNITED for the good of all…
    If my history is correct, the last time the people of this country got fed up with the leaders of our country, we had a civil war…


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  • All around the Mulberry Bush,
    The monkey chased the weasel.
    The monkey stopped to scratch his nose

    Pop! goes the weasel.


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  • Jebus Jebus

    Ring around the rosy
    Pocket full of posies
    Ashes, Ashes
    All fall down

    Do you know the origin of this?


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    • milk and cheese milk and cheese

      it originated during the Black Death. The ‘rosy’ is a rosary; ‘pocket full of posies’ is an ineffectual herbal remedy for the illness; and when you ‘fall down’ you are dying of plague.


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  • tony wilson

    This can not be real. Who the fuck would run heavy equipment in such a tight and dangerous area : )

    well let me see.
    the cia maybe..
    maybe someone from fema they have built all those lovely prison camps.
    spent millions on ration pack,have countless underwater body bags sitting around.
    the fuki collapse is not happin quick eneough for rothchild and rockerfellafuck.
    just tryin to speed events along a bit.
    big money and control in wars and collapse not to mention big pharma medications.


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  • Been about my conclusion too, with all the extra “disastrous” stuff “suddenly” happening since Fukushima.

    Move along, move along, time to get irradiated and die quickly, come on now you hordes of “useless eaters” – suck up those rads, eat more cheese, drink more milk, oh and don’t forget the beef! Watch these stupid shows and don’t ever wonder about how much poison is getting into your bodies.

    “There is no danger to human health.”

    All in positions of public responsibility who have said this relative to radiation in the past few months, while knowing it to be false, do deserve to be charged as genocidal psychopaths before being locked up for life.


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  • Lee Binder

    CNN just caught up, very first entry right under “Latest News”, so that’s “good”.

    Let’s hope this statement of the plant spokesman is (and remains) true: “The plant is still protected. This was an additional, a secondary, level of protection that we had put up,” Jones said. “The plant remains protected to the level it would have been if the aqua berm had not been added.”


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  • jump-ball

    Look at the BS-coverup language used here in this thread title.

    It would be more revealing for the admin to allude to additional possible realities rather than merely quote the misleading official pabulum:

    “…a piece of heavy equipment nicked a temporary rubber berm…”:

    This 2000 foot long aquadam, holding millions of gallons of water, at huge pressures, must be 1-2-3 inches thick – not something subject to rupture by those unavoidable, ubiquitous ‘nicks’.

    Nor was it a “temporary” rubber berm, to be replaced soon by something more substantial, but was no doubt designed and chosen for its estimated ability to last all summer and stand up to the sustained flood heights projected to last through September.

    The ‘devil is in the details’, of the misleading language of the corrupt nuclear spokespeople, and in the quoting of their announcements without words of qualification.


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  • Novamind

    What about Fukushima? Ft. Calhoun has worked pretty well to take focus off. It will also work to relieve responcibility from TEPCO/Japan.


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  • Jon_NY Jon_NY

    OMAHA, Neb. (KTIV) – Rumors of cracks in Gavin’s Point have run rampant for weeks. Again and again, officials have said the dam is functioning properly.

    Now, someone’s started spreading a new rumor, that the feds plan to detonate explosives at the dam to release the water pressure. Authorities want to set the record straight.

    “We’re not streaming explosives on the dam and the dam isn’t cracking. It’s performing as designed. Whether it’s a joke, a hoax, that’s what the internet allows,” said Colonel Bob Ruch.

    An Army Corps spokesman warns there could be consequences for those putting out this kind of false information.

    http://www.ktiv.com/story/14979661/corps-concerned-over-gavins-point-rumor


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  • BetaFlare

    Seems meltdown needed the rubber dam to be broken; j€§uits did not get enough water with HAARP?

    HAARP :

    As long as you folks keep on babbling and will not stand against the enemy, he can operated as he wishes. Its a cnacer which is inside every function: over 4million freemas0ns work hard to fulfill the ordrs they get. They are clueless ants in self destruction run by the j€§uits.

    Most important issue in a war is secrecy: the enemy isnt there…

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

    .

    ———————————————————————–

    HAARP – a weapons system which disrupts the climate – EU records on 5 February 1998
    http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A4-1999-0005+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN

    On 5 February 1998 Parliament’s Subcommittee on Security and Disarmament held a hearing the subject of which included HAARP. NATO and the US had been invited to send representatives, but chose not to do so. The Committee regrets the failure of the USA to send a representative to answer questions, or to use the opportunity to comment on the material submitted.(21)

    HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) is run jointly by the US Air Force and Navy, in conjunction with the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Similar experiments are also being conducted in Norway, probably in the Antarctic, as well as in the former Soviet Union.(22) HAARP is a research project using a ground based apparatus, an array of antennae each powered by its own transmitter, to heat up portions of ionosphere with powerful radio beams.(23) The energy generated heats up parts of the ionosphere; this results in holes in the ionosphere and produces artificial ‘lenses’.

    HAARP can be used for many purposes. Enormous quantities of energy can be controlled by manipulating the electrical characteristics of the atmosphere. If used as a military weapon this can have a devastating impact on an enemy. … etcetc


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  • AustralianCannonball

    My latest video about the bull crap lies:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqHqwKJ3Gg


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  • farawayfan farawayfan

    Just to say it….Why was there only ONE BERM? Why not layer the damn things so if one fails, there’re others. Jeez I know the nuclear industry wants to save money, but those rubber things can’t be that damn expensive.


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    • BetaFlare

      Why build doubledecker General Electric GE Mark1 beach-bombs on known flood & tsunami beaches?

      Systems which need 10kW diesesl oil tor produce 1kW nuke energy.

      Systems which throw into sea 3kWh of every produced 4kWh.

      Add mox =plutonium to boost power up to 20% on 40 years old shaky systems so that it comes impossible even to shut down.

      Please. At last. Clic some anti-MSM info of this papal death tech:
      http://wp.me/pwIAV-19 (repost)


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