Published: June 15th, 2011 at 3:00 am ET
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Ground saturation deepens concerns, Argus Leader, June 11, 2011:
[In] portions of Sioux City, Iowa [...] the main focus now is on groundwater.
The problem is that sandbags provide no protection from water coming from underground, and recent rainfall has provided excess fluid to already saturated property along the river.
“I think hundreds of homes could be affected by the rising groundwater,” said Lee Rettig of Yankton County emergency management.
Published: June 15th, 2011 at 3:00 am ET
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Yes, sandbags will not stop groundwater from bubbling up. You must be ready to start pumping when this becomes a problem. The nuclear power plant at Fort Calhoun is about 80 miles downstream from Sioux City and maybe 10 miles upstream from Omaha. Here’s hoping that everything stays put there! It is a concern at a plant where many things are built close to the ground.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHZdub3n0mI&feature=player_embedded
*High Alert* – Fire -Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant near Omaha Nebraska- Flooding Missouri River
Thats some comforting footage right there…
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CATASTROPHIC FLOOD DAMAGE, NRC REPORT
In July, 2010, Fort Calhoun Power Plant was found by the NRC to be hopelessly susceptible to flood damage and disaster. Upgrades were ordered.
But were those upgrades completed before the flood of 2011? (I’m working on the answer to that question.)
Another BIG question is this: Would Fort Calhoun have melted down if floods had occurred last year? Read the report below and think for yourself.
JULY, 2010 – United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Fort Calhoun Station:
The …”deficiency is more than minor because … an external flood event would degrade two or more trains of a multi-train safety system. … The licensee failed to initiate appropriate corrective actions to ensure regulatory compliance … was maintained.”
Under conditions of flooding, the licensee would be unable “to protect the Fort Calhoun Station auxiliary building, intake structure, and turbine building basement from external flood up to flood elevation of 1013 feet mean sea level”… as required.
“The inspectors found (violations) … for failure to establish and maintain procedures that protect intake structure and auxiliary building during external flooding events. …”Flood Control Preparedness for Sandbagging” was inadequate … and would be insufficient to protect vital facilities to 1014 feet sea level.
http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/idmws/DocContent.dll?library=PU_ADAMS^pbntad01&LogonID=6755edb3540450a8c4d826895ae7896e&id=102010052
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DAMN: The link above works if you copy and paste the entire address — the blue part and the black part together as one.
But the document has been “locked.” When I discoverd the document — which is the original NRC report — no password was needed to read it. Now a password is needed.
So sorry.
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READ THE ORIGINAL NRC REPORT
I saved the original document, the NRC report in PDF format. If you want a copy, leave an email address (create a temporary email account, I suggest, at hotmail, for instance) and I will send it to you in 24 hours or less — but only if you make your request on 6/15/2011.
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BlackRain – please email me the report at pachamamakat at yahoo dot com. Thank you so much. This document will disappear down the memory hole and it is important that we have access to it. Thank you, too, for all the information you and others continually provide on this site.
Unrelated, I have to say that I am sad that this site has so little traffic given the magnitude of this disaster – shades of the GOM. This is the best site for news updates. At least half the posters on Energy News are posters from FOSL. How is it that just a few thousand people on the planet care about these disasters? Even amongst my environmental, politically progressive friends, they are more incensed by Sarah Palin’s possible run for presidency than what is happening in Fukushima. Now we have a potential nuclear meltdown in US soil and still people don’t give a damn!
A year ago I had a “vision” regarding the GOM and future earth events. The GOM disaster was a tragic event that could have pulled humanity together on a a spiritual and environmental level, but that obviously didn’t work out. It was explained to me that the GOM is a karma issue and that until humans get their collective excrement together, we will continue to experience larger and larger environmental catastrophes. Fukushima and the GOM weren’t enough to wake people up. Now we face the serious possibility of an accident in the heartland of the US and the only info I can find comes from the same handful of people who tried to do something about the GOM and Fukushima by publicizing it.
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I agree with you Kelly. At the very LEAST people could come here and witness a very non boring chunk of history be revealed daily. Who needs History Channel when you live in very interesting historic times!
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ocifferdave at hot mail dot com
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@ Kelly Ann Thomas
@ ocifferdave
I emailed the report to you, as requested.
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Excellent link, Tacoma.
Thanks.
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There’s a meeting today?
http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/webcast-live.html
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risabee,
Thanks for this link. The slides are at least a little informative.
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I think it is now too late to watch, but will be archived.
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I can’t find the original post to thank the person who posted the link. I found the following info at that link. Foreseen problems with one of the upstream dams:
“As alarming as that might be the true issue may not be with the Garrison Dam, but the Fort Peck Dam the first dam in the system. Here is a scenario taken from Bernard Shanks a guest commentator from the St. Louis Today.com website.”:
“The Fort Peck Dam is built with a flawed design that has suffered a well-known fate for this type of dam — liquefaction — in which saturated soil loses its stability. Hydraulic-fill dams are prone to almost instant collapse from stress or earthquakes. California required all hydraulic-fill dams be torn out or rebuilt — and no other large dams have been built this way since.
“At three miles wide, Fort Peck Dam last opened its floodgates 36 years ago. By the end of the first week in June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be releasing a record spill of water. The corps recently answered the question of possible failure with a statement the dam is ‘absolutely safe.’ It may be the largest at-risk dam in the nation.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/10/984002/-Dam-Danger,-Flooding-and-Ft-Calhoun-Nuclear-Power-Plant
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Peck_Dam
Fort Peck Dam
Dam failure during construction
The slide took the lives of 8 men on September 22, 1938. Fort Peck Dam, Fort Peck, Montana. Courtesy, estate of Robert A. Midthun.This process proceeded until elevation of the fill reached approximately 2250 ft (686 metres (2,251 ft) (61 m) above the foundation), while the reservoir was at an elevation of 2,117.5 feet (645.4 m). At this point, the danger of the core pool overtopping or bursting the shell became greater because the beaches became narrower. For this reason, an extensive alarm system was implemented along…
There was info. about a a news broadcast a few days ago ! No other dams like this were built because of the problems !
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6/16 news: Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant Flooded in Nebraska …why isn’t this news & why did FAA declare no fly zone around plant??
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a temporary flight restriction over the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant until further notice due to “Hazards”. This would normally be a precautionary measure after an electrical fire disabled cooling for the spent fuel rod pool as outlined below. The question is why is this still in effect?
Officials hope temporary levee will save Iowa town
The Fort Calhoun nuclear power station in Fort Calhoun, Neb., currently shut down for refueling, is surrounded by flood waters from the Missouri River, Tuesday, June 14, 2011. On Tuesday, the releases at Gavins Point Dam in South Dakota hit the maximum planned amount of 150,000 cubic feet of water per second, which are expected to raise the Missouri River 5 to 7 feet above flood stage in most of Nebraska and Iowa.
The following excerpt is being reported by several sites concerning a finding by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the facility failed to maintain procedures against external flooding:
As a result of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspection conducted from January 1 to June 21, 2010, the NRC determined that Fort Calhoun Station (FCS) did not have adequate procedures to protect the intake structure and auxiliary building against external flooding events. Specifically, contrary to Technical Specification 5.8.1.a, the station failed to maintain procedures for combating a significant flood as recommended by Regulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix A, section 6.w, “Acts of Nature.”
The idea of a makeshift levee surrounding a nuclear power plant that has been found to be out of compliance by the NRC for precautions concerning external flooding requirements is something straight out of a bad B movie plot. Although the government and media are not reporting on this situation, I can only hope that security against a terrorist attack on this levee have been implemented.
http://conservativenc.com/index.php/national/4067
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Hot particle explanation by Rich Misty, Huffpost Community Moderator:
“The Nuclear Cheerleaders have been desperate to spin highly radioactive particles as “low level” radiation. Michael Mann tried to spin me with this the other day. The term “low level” is actually a scientific one, and when it is applied to radionuclide fallout it is a misuse of the scientific term for propaganda purposes. — http://www¬.science-d¬ictionary.¬com/defini¬tion/low-l¬evel-radia¬tion.html”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/WonderingNThinking/japan-earthquake-2011-government-radiaton-estimate-doubles-_n_871887_91783968.html
This picture of reactors #3 and #4 is very large:
“Government doubles estimate on radiation leaked at Fukushima”
http://www.tokyotimes.jp/post/en/1939/Government+doubles+estimate+on+radiation+leaked+at+Fukushima.html
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Hi Anne,
the unit 3/4 is quite impressive, i think. That’s the one where you can see quite clearly see no. 3′s RPV steaming along without its top / cap…
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The time is here, to bid the normal farwell. Mankind Has Crearated his own demise. I have never been a doom and gloom type. I believe to fight any monster to the end, and pass the sword of fight onto the next generation. But this ideal has changed. Our next generation of warriors is relunctent to motivate to do what is needed to prevent the devise of mankind./ Thus is the world created and yes it is sad.
Things are changing so fast, one can’t keep up. Remember what once was once the normal way. God speed to all that believe for the time is near.
All Evil needs to Suceded is for good men to do NOTHING.
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Misspeled and miss punchuated but every word true to the Bone. Does it really matter at this point……. No.
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Thought for the day.
So what should we expect when we wake up on 21st December 2012?
In the northern hemisphere it will be the darkest day of the year., but will it be a day of true true darkness for all humanity or one of transformation? Or will it be, a day like any other?
The answer to this question could be a very individual one. For most people, it is difficult to relateour own mortality to the mortality of the whole human race or the condition of the earth. In the western wold we liveseperate lives, largely unaffected by themajor events thatcan devastate whole communities. Yet we know that many people havelived through such overwhelming expieriences-tsunamis, floods, eruptions, earthquakes and world wars exist within our memories.
The way we view such eventsis greatly affected by our spiritual perspective on life. If we believe that the mortal material life is all we have, then death and destruction truly are the end of our individual (and possibly our collective) identities. If however we sense that death is not the end and part of us lives on, we may view impending events as part of a spiritual initiation, a cosmic challenge to our ability to resist fear. For perhaps it is not the events we should fear but fear itself. For it is not fear that causes us to behave in ways that demean our spirit and makes us lose touch with our ability to express love? Perhaps then, the question that remains is: how should we prepare for change?
David Douglas
The Mayan Phrophecy 2012
Isbn 978-1-84181-337-0
love light and peace
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There are those believers of such and a Haven !
French village seen at threat from Apocalypse sects
Vicky Buffery
Reuters June 15, 2011
PARIS (Reuters Life!) – The tiny southern French hamlet of Bugarach has drawn scrutiny from a government sect watchdog over droves of visitors who believe it is the only place in the world that will survive a 2012 Apocalypse.
A report by the watchdog, Miviludes, published Wednesday said the picturesque village near Carcassonne should be monitored in the run-up to December 21, 2012, when many believe the world will end according to an ancient Mayan prophecy.
Miviludes was set up in 2002 to track the…
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/sns-rt-us-france-sectstre75e4oh-20110615,0,543871.story
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Enjoying the fruits of life too much lost us our powers of survival.
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Your words carry the wisdom of truth, I believe you are an old soul, one to look upon for guidence and clearity in this time of deception and lies.
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For many, yes. Others used the fruit as preserves and put them away for later use. Survival is primal. Primal usually implies feral. Those who did not prepare mentally and physically are going to go feral. Watch your 6.
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Yes and as some still chase *the dream* desperately, they continue to miss that what they chase WILL NOT MATTER without a life.
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I have stock piled the food and water, the longterm survival needs, the gun safe runnath over. I have tried to ralley the family, and spread the word to family and friends. I’am DONE, my positive responce is 21 1/2% at best MOST think I’m Crazy. My Focus needs to change. The door never closes to family, and I will cry over the friends who wake up too late. Things Have and Will Change Forever. God Speed.
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Started the prep after Lehman Bros with 6 children and 8 grandchildren in mind, all too busy ever since to be concerned.
Am still adding on-sale, long-dated canned and storeable dry food and supplies, but now I take it from the store directly to the AC’d storage rental unit.
The food, and I, don’t like the heat.
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Novamind
You know they know you are prepared and will come to you when the sh*t hits the fan soon enough ! What will you do ? How much food did you stock ? Thoughts for your own mind and them warned later !
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You can’t stockpile water that lasts for many years. Sooner or later, you have to replenish with what is out there.
And the hot particles will reach you through the air and can’t be read by a Geiger counter.
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Water can be stored all you have to do is get Spring Water, after a yr or so you take and replace the oxygen in the water by pouring it in one container and another a few times, then restore. As to foods some in the stores last 2 to 3 years. Canned goods store well past the dates.As to Japan Reactor station, there are still things that can be done but Tepco and GE wanted to save a dying plant
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I was being given and eating C-rations from WWII 42-44 in 68-69 in Nam, most all of it and with 4 cig packs of Lucky’s or Chesterfield’s, Paul Mauls, the peanut butter was good and the apricots as well as all . Yummy !
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And I still have a wear My same P-38 isssued on keychain and use it often for many cans and other things ! lol
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Hooah!
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And the Cig’s were pre-fallout Tobacco.. Ahh !
You know about broad leaf plants and fallout right, and in the soil to root system, bigger plants/leaves then normal !
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Save – by five detonations? …”but Tepco and GE wanted to save a dying plant”
Papal savings are in the Adolphs gold teeth vaults… here the Plutonium reactor detonations, repost http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_83clarF6AY
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This problem will go on longer than 2 to 3 years.
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Interview with Arnie Gundersen -
http://www.radio4all.net/files/theknightreport@gmail.com/3862-1-Fort_Calhoun_-_Arnie_Gunderson_with_Robert_Knight_-_WBAI_Five_OClock_Shadow.mp3
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How much would have been the added cost of a 40 foot high flood-strength wall surrounding all nuclear reactors located by ocean or river water?
It would have already been a very good investment payback for TemporaryCo’s Fuku I, probably also for the sandbagged FORT CALHOUN NE nuclear reactor, and many other facilities worldwide.
My experience though has been that both governments and corporations only provide what is in the public short-term interest, always at the expense of their long-term safety and other interests.
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remember folks america was built on the mighty sandbag.
when people say america some think of apple pie,others a crack den in baltimore.i think of the proud sandbag.
nothin wrong withumm.
unlike most americans today,they work.taken in water day in and out.
no respect,no thanks just suckin up all that cesium and tritium from the river.
the tin hat nutters that say what the fuck is happenin here with this state of the art clean energy usin a bag with sand and zeolite init.
remember if it was not for sand bags in the swamps of cape canaveral george bush would not of sent buzz lightyear to mars.
and are heroic marines would have to use the homeless for target and bayonet rifle practice.
god bless you mr sandbag.
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Ya…Corp ..it’s not nice to poo-poo in your sandbox.
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Nebraska nuclear plant crisis worsens with midwest flooding- video
Posted on June 15, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol
As the pace of earthchanges intensifies, nuclear plants will pose greater and greater environmental risks as the planet’s ecology is overturned by natural disasters. About 15 plants operate in the high-risk New Madrid fault zone. Time and time again, as with Japan and now with the unprecedented flooding along the Missouri River, in the event of a crisis, we…
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/nebraska-nuclear-plant-crisis1-worsens-with-midwest-flooding-video/
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That video was 1st broadcast 4 or so days ago by KMTV.com, Omaha, when Missouri flood levels were 1-2 feet lower, and broadcast despite the fact that the FORT CALHOUN operator urged the station to not air the video, which the station viewed as an illegal exertion of privacy rights over a public waterway.
KMTV is continuing to resist suppression and intimidation, and today’s up-to-date video, by helocopter, shows FORT CALHOUN nuclear reactor, at 1:21, completely sandbagged and surrounded by rising Missouri River flood water estimated to be 2-4 feet higher by next Saturday, and without road access in or out of the site for firetrucks or EMT vehicles.
FORT CALHOUN no longer has adequate access for fire protection or emergency evacuation, and this isolation will last for 3 or 4 more months as the Missouri only gradually subsides:
Watch here, and download the video before it is replaced or dropped or suppressed:
http://www.action3news.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=5957728&h1=Tour%20of%20Flooding%20From%20Above%20With%20Nebraska%27s%20Governor&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=147800&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&rnd=74577025
Nuclear site workers presumably get to work by boat or helicopter
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I found and veiwed it about 3PM today, You know we don’t have the Best MSM but I did gather many news articles about in the last few days, many posted !
But thanks for reminding me of the sorry news media we have !
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chief Blasts Agency’s Approach to Fire Safety
http://www.propublica.org/article/nuclear-regulatory-commission-chief-blasts-agencys-approach-to-fire-safety
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Alex’s latest report from Japan (June 15)
Comments on farmer suicide, Italy votes for No-Nukes & dosimeters for Japanese school children:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-3-H-v3DsE&feature=uploademail
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Latest Leuren Moret interview.
Mega-tsunami, total melt-through, radiation levels and illnesses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L3BHnI1A_Y&feature=uploademail
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http://cryptome.org/eyeball/ne-npp-flood/ne-npp-flood.htm
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“Five O’Clock Shadow” with Robert Knight.
Nuclear engineer ARNIE GUNDERSEN discusses the flood, fire, coolant loss, and ongoing dangers at Fort Calhoun Nuke near Omaha:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/52367
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