Level 4 Emergency: Fort Calhoun(Nebraska) Nuclear Plant Flooded

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On June 6, 2011, the report from Action Three News, Worst Case Scenario Leaves Huge Piece of Omaha Under Water:

Omaha, NE – Homes and businesses north of Ames, east of Florence Boulevard and east of South 16th Street are at risk for flooding if the north Omaha levee breaks. The Qwest Center, Gallup Campus, North Omaha Power Plant and all of Eppley Airfield would be affected. That’s about 2,700 people the city would have to evacuate.

Even though officials are confident in the levees through Omaha, they still want people to know about the risk and be prepared for the worst case scenario. City leaders say the worst case would put a huge part of northeast Omaha in up to 10 feet of water. This is one of many reasons why officials monitor it so closely.

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Op dinsdag 21 juni 2011 13:22 schreef Pizzakoppo het volgende:
Pfff gelukkig geen gevaar voor de volksgezondheid!

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A shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant located in Nebraska.

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Located about 20 minutes outside downtown Omaha, the largest city in Nebraska, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant is owned by Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) who on their website denies their plant is at a “Level 4” emergency by stating: “This terminology is not accurate, and is not how emergencies at nuclear power plants are classified.”
Russian atomic scientists in this FAAE report, however, say that this OPPD statement is an “outright falsehood” as all nuclear plants in the world operate under the guidelines of the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) which clearly states the “events” occurring at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant do, indeed, put it in the “Level 4” emergency category of an “accident with local consequences” thus making this one of the worst nuclear accidents in US history.

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Op woensdag 22 juni 2011 06:57 schreef Bastard het volgende:

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At this moment, 19 miles north of Omaha in the small town of Blair, Neb., a barrier of Aqua Dams separates the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station from the Missouri River’s flood waters. Another 100 miles downstream on the Nebraska side of the river but past the Iowa-Missouri line, more than 5,000 tons of sand was brought in to help protect the Cooper Nuclear Station from rising waters.

The Cooper facility is the largest single unit electrical generator in Nebraska, and is owned and operated by Nebraska Public Power District. It’s operating license was issued in January 1974 and renewed in November 2010 (through January 2034). As The Iowa Independent previously noted, this plant has a GE Mark I like the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 in Japan.

Early on the morning of Sunday, June 19, Cooper plant officials declared a “Notification of Unusual Event,” due to flood water levels of 42.5 feet or 899 feet above sea level. (The plant was built at 903 feet above mean sea level or MSL, which is 13 feet above the natural grade.) The declaration is part of emergency preparedness and is the lowest and least serious of four classifications established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for power plants. Officials have also brought additional diesel fuel to the site just in case the plants three emergency cooling generators need to operate for an extended period of time.

Early on the morning of Sunday, June 19, Cooper plant officials declared a “Notification of Unusual Event,” due to flood water levels of 42.5 feet or 899 feet above sea level. (The plant was built at 903 feet above mean sea level or MSL, which is 13 feet above the natural grade.) The declaration is part of emergency preparedness and is the lowest and least serious of four classifications established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for power plants. Officials have also brought additional diesel fuel to the site just in case the plants three emergency cooling generators need to operate for an extended period of time.

Much of the ongoing speculation of pending catastrophe in relation to Calhoun is a combination of a series of unfortunate and unusual pre-flood events and the publics perceived secrecy by the company and regulatory officials. In fact the rumor mill related to the facility has gotten so bad The Nation, an English publication in Pakistan, reported late last week that the U.S. government had ordered a total and complete news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown at the Nebraska facility OPPD officials have developed a website page devoted to flood rumor control.