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Audio and video accounts of flood threat to Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant

Listen to the original radio account on “Five O’Clock Shadow” on WBAI / Pacifica Radio Network with Robert Knight interviewing nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen. Watch the three youtube videos which use the Gundersen interview:
Video One, Video Two, Video Three. Watch a video taken June 16 of the road into the power plant with the reactor and generator building surrounded by floodwaters.

Missouri River floods endanger nuclear power plants – time for climate adaption | Indymedia Australia, 19 June 11“……The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant in the midwest state of Nebraska was protected by sandbag levies and is now surrounded by flood waters. The reactor has been in cold shutdown mode since April 9 while being refueled. A “notification of unusual event” was issued due to the floods in early June. An alert was issued on June 7 after a fire in a switchgear room which was quickly extinguished. Cooling for the spent fuel pool was out of action about 90 minutes before a backup pump was activated.

Assurances have been issued by Omaha Public Power District (non-profit electricity utility)that the nuclear reactor is safe and no radiation has been released
The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant is the designated spent fuel storage facility for the entire state of Nebraska. Calhoun stores its spent fuel in ground-level pools.
The incidents have produced accounts raising this as a nuclear emergency and subsequent coverup. Listen to the original radio account on “Five O’Clock Shadow” on WBAI / Pacifica Radio Network with Robert Knight interviewing nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen. Watch the three youtube videos which use the Gundersen interview:
Video One, Video Two, Video Three. Watch a video taken June 16 of the road into the power plant with the reactor and generator building surrounded by floodwaters.
Missouri River floods endanger nuclear power plants – time for climate adaption | Indymedia Australia

June 20, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual