base283 0 #1 June 22, 2011 http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/18-Jun-2011/US-orders-news-blackout-over-crippled-Nebraska-Nuclear-Plant-report Take care, space Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heatmiser 0 #2 June 22, 2011 Quotehttp://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/18-Jun-2011/US-orders-news-blackout-over-crippled-Nebraska-Nuclear-Plant-report Take care, spaceWhat you say is reflective of your knowledge...HOW ya say it is reflective of your experience. Airtwardo Someone's going to be spanked! Hopefully, it will be me. Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
winsor 227 #3 June 22, 2011 QuoteClique! Take care, space Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,772 #4 June 22, 2011 This was in the Wall Street journal, and similar stories appeared in USA Today, Businessweek and on Reuters: =========================== JUNE 8, 2011, 7:21 P.M. ET Nebraska Nuclear Plant Lost Cooling System After Fire WALL STREET JOURNAL By RYAN TRACY WASHINGTON—A nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Neb., on Tuesday briefly lost the ability to cool a pool of used nuclear fuel after a fire at the site, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. The NRC said the plant recovered cooling ability without activating backup systems and "temperatures in the pool remained at safe levels." The public was not in danger because the plant has been shut down since early April for a refueling outage, the agency said. Spent fuel pools in the U.S. have received increased scrutiny after a recent crisis in Japan involving potentially overheated nuclear fuel and the release of dangerous radiation. The agency declared an alert, the second of four emergency classes, at 9:40 a.m., 10 minutes after "an indication of fire" in a building at the plant. The NRC didn't disclose the cause of the fire. Automatic fire control systems activated and the fire was out by 10:20 a.m., the agency said. The plant is operated by the Omaha Public Power District. ========================= A reply from the utility to the linked Nation article: ========================= OPPD Separates Fact From Fiction Posted: Jun 17, 2011 3:41 PM PDT ACTION3 NEWS FEATURED VIDEO OPPD Clears Up Rumors over Fort Calhoun’s Power Plant Omaha, NE - The Omaha Public Power District is clearing up rumors about the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant that have surfaced on the Internet. At a press conference Friday, officials reviewed several claims made by writers that they say are not true. "For one, are not in a Level Four emergency," stated the Chief Nuclear Office David Bannister. Bannister also struck down the theory of a no-fly-zone at the plant because of radiation concerns. He asserted the real issue is about airplane pilots getting too close to the scene as they catch a glimpse of rising flood waters. "I can't afford, at a time when I've got a natural disaster going on, to have an aircraft crash on site that could potentially impact one of my power sources." OPPD also spent the morning dispelling the notion that fuel rods are in danger of a meltdown in the aftermath of an electrical fire earlier this month. "Our operating crews took immediate actions and got the fire brigade out to the scene to deal with the problem." ==================================== Current updates: ==================================== Flooding in Nebraska Threatens Nuclear Power Plants By Matthew Rothschild, June 22, 2011 The sight of a nuclear power plant in Nebraska surrounded by the rising waters of the flooding Missouri River is cause for alarm, to say the least. Just 19 miles from Omaha, the Fort Calhoun plant had been warned back in October by the NRC that it had inadequate flood plans in place, and that flooding could cause damage to the plant’s core. “Not everything is fine,” says Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s energy program. “We’re inches away from a nuclear plant being flooded. It’s already an island. And we still have a very real possibility of flood levels rising.” Slocum says the operators are reaching “the upper levels” of their emergency flood assumptions, adding: “There’s always the possibility of the situation escalating, especially when we don’t control all the variables. That’s what happened in Japan.” ========================= Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredivot 0 #5 June 22, 2011 Well, they never said it was an effective blackout. You are only as strong as the prey you devour Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,772 #6 June 22, 2011 >Well, they never said it was an effective blackout. Fair point! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jakee 1,379 #7 June 22, 2011 Interesting indeed, but not in regard to censorship. Reading this article in a Pakistani newspaper, referencing a Russian report (that we can't see), based on IAEA information (that we can't see) about an event in the US, when do you think I started to doubt its credibility?Do you want to have an ideagasm? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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