Nebraska Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant Berm (rubber wall) Collapses!!

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7-27-11 Fort Calhoun Berm collapsed today! The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it's monitoring the Missouri River flooding at the plant 19 miles north of Omaha, which has been shut down since early April for refueling.

The 2,000-foot berm collapsed about 1:25 a.m., allowing the swollen river to surround two buildings at the plant. The NRC says those buildings are designed to handle flooding up to 1,014 feet above sea level. The river is at 1,006.3 feet and isn't forecast to exceed 1,008 feet.

The NRC says its inspectors were at the plant when the berm failed and have confirmed that the flooding has had no impact on the reactor shutdown cooling or the spent fuel pool cooling.

NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko will visit the plant Monday. He toured the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Nebraska on Sunday Omaha, NE -- The head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in Nebraska to observe preparations being made at two nuclear plants in the flood zone.

The Chairman of the NRC Gregory Jaczko visited the Cooper nuclear power plant south of Omaha Sunday and will go to the Fort Calhoun plant east of Omaha Monday morning.

An NRC inspection at Fort Calhoun two years ago indicated deficiencies in the flood preparation area, which the licensee has now remedied.

Cooper is a Mark I GE boiling water reactor and Fort Calhoun is a Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactor.
The makeshift flood berm "holding floodwaters from" Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Plant collapsed at 1:30 this morning and the plant is now operating on emergency generators as workers try to restore electricity after water surrounded the plant's main electrical transformers.




The auxiliary building at Ft. Calhoun, listed among the nation's 14 most dangerous nuclear plants, was surrounded by water after the berm failure according to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission letter. (See Special Report: Nuclear flood threat: 1100 troops, 25,000 homes flooded, NRC chief onsite (vid)," Dupré, D. June 25, 2011)

The letter stated that if water enters the auxiliary building, there could have been a station blackout with core damage in hours.

A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, 20 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska, collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger according to AP.

Details http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/fort-calhoun-nuclear-flood-e...

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  • Rubber Wall=EPIC FAIL!

    Matthewb2765 8 months ago

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  • oh so boring

    joonsebjang 6 months ago

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