Radiation Poisoning Fire at Flooded Nebraska Nuke Plant Leads to Level 4 Emergency

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A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday, June 9 briefly
knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at
the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant
officials said. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Back in January 2010, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission cited
the plant for failure to maintain procedures for combatting a
significant flood, as previously recommended.

The plant is now engulfed in flood waters, which are expected
to rise five more feet. Fairewinds Associates' Arnie Gundersen
says that the plant is built to sustain current flooding but if any
one of several surrounding dams breach, it could cause a
Midwestern tsunami and lead to a situation similar to the
Fukushima disaster, as there are several years' worth of very
radioactive spent fuel rods in the cooling pools.

That's just the tip of the iceberg...

If Any of Several Local Dams Breach,
It'll Be Another Tsunami..."

Uploaded by Sheilaaliens
Jun 14, 2011

Fort Calhoun near Omaha, Nebraska

"On June 6, 2011, the Fort Calhoun pressurized water nuclear reactor 20 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska entered emergency status due to imminent flooding from the Missouri River. A day later, there was an electrical fire requiring plant evacuation.

Then, on June 8th, NRC event reports confirmed the fire resulted in the loss of cooling for the reactor's spent fuel pool. The discussion includes specific details of the technical failures at Fort Calhoun, the risks of coolant loss at overcrowded "spent" fuel pools, and the national hazards of nuclear facilities along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, and other water sites during the current period of floods and climate change."

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June 15, 2011

Alexandra Bruce note:

In January 2010, the NRC cited the plant for failure to maintain procedures for combating a significant flood as recommended by Regulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix A, section 6.w, "Acts of Nature."

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June 15, 2011

Tom Burnett writes on Rense.com on that: "Ft. Calhoun is the designated spent fuel storage facility for the entire state of Nebraska...and maybe for more than one state.*

"Calhoun stores its spent fuel in ground-level pools which are underwater anyway - but they are open at the top. When the Missouri river pours in there, it's going to make Fukushima look like an x-ray. But that's not all. There are a LOT of nuclear plants on both the Missouri and Mississippi and they can all go to hell fast...

"This could be nothing...or, it could wipe out the middle of America."

* Source

www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/locations.html

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Electrical Fire Knocks Out Spent Fuel Cooling at Nebraska Nuke Plant

by John Sullivan
ProPublica
June 9, 2011

A fire in an electrical switch room on Tuesday briefly knocked out cooling for a pool holding spent nuclear fuel at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant outside Omaha, Neb., plant officials said.

The safety of deep pools used to store used radioactive fuel at nuclear plants has been an issue since the accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in March. If the cooling water a pool is lost, the used nuclear fuel could catch fire and release radiation.

As ProPublica reported earlier, fire safety is a continuing concern at the country's 104 commercial reactors, as is the volume of spent fuel piling up at plants.

Officials at Fort Calhoun said the situation at their plant came nowhere near to Fukushima's. They said it would have taken 88 hours for the heat produced by the fuel to boil away the cooling water.

Workers restored cooling in about 90 minutes, and plant officials said the temperature in the pool only increased by two degrees.

The fire, reported at 9:30 a.m., led to the loss of electrical power for the system that circulates cooling water through the spent fuel pool, according to a report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. A chemical fire suppression system discharged, and the plant's fire brigade cleared smoke from the room and reported that the fire was out at 10:20 a.m., the NRC said.

Mike Jones, a spokesman for the plant's owner, the Omaha Public Power District, said Fort Calhoun has a backup pump to provide water to the spent fuel in case the main system is lost. That pump, which runs on a separate power supply from the rest of the plant, was inspected and standing by on Tuesday, but plant operators restored main power to the pool before the emergency pump was needed, he said.

Fort Calhoun's single reactor has been shut down since April for refueling. The plant had already been operating under a heightened level of alert because of nearby flooding on the Missouri River, the NRC said. The cause of the fire remained under investigation this morning.

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[peapaw2010]

I watch the Omaha news nearly everyday. I work ten miles North of this plant in Blair. Never heard anything about it! WTF?

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It reminds me for some reason of the German poison gas chambers of that time. Sickening i know. But i guess that feeling of mine stems from the way leaders are keeping this all a secret somehow.

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How is this not national/world news? A nuclear disaster in the corn belt should be a big deal for everyone. Plus it is 8 miles from Omaha.

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