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Safety worries continue at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant

“It’s unsettling to live just a few miles from the plant,” ….. Regulators also found flaws in the utility’s analysis of how the plant would withstand different accident conditions such as earthquakes, tornadoes or loss of coolant.

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant Unlikely To Restart Before Fall (includes video) HUFFINGTON POST 04/ 4/2012 BLAIR, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators said Wednesday it’s unlikely the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant will restart before fall because of the extensive inspections and repairs needed.

Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Omaha Public
Power District met in Blair, a few miles from the plant that’s about
20 miles north of Omaha. The meeting is part of the strict oversight
regulators have imposed on Fort Calhoun because of problems at the
plant…… Regulators are watching Fort Calhoun closely because it
has been closed so long and because several problems were found at the
plant over the past couple years unrelated to last summer’s flooding.

OPPD officials faced several pointed questions from people in the
audience who are concerned about the plant. Jane Heinrich said she
wants to know what the utility will do to regain her trust and the
trust of everyone else who lives in Blair.

“It’s unsettling to live just a few miles from the plant,” Heinrich said….. Regulators also found flaws in the utility’s analysis of how the plant would withstand different accident conditions such as earthquakes, tornadoes or loss of coolant.

A key electrical part failed during a 2010 test at Fort Calhoun. That
same year the NRC identified deficiencies in flood planning at the
plant…. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/fort-calhoun-nuclear-power-plant_n_1404340.html

April 6, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, USA