Nuke plant (Fort Calhoun Omaha) fire gets closer look

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Nancy Gaarder

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending a special team of inspectors to Nebraska to learn more about a fire at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station not long after flooding created issues at the plant.

The Omaha Public Power District, which owns the plant, has said that it does not believe the June 8 fire was related to flooding from the Missouri River.

The fire briefly disabled the plant's ability to cool its spent fuel pool. Both federal regulators and the utility say the spent fuel was not in danger because it would have taken more than 80 hours for the pool to begin boiling off water and exposing the fuel.

Regulators have said the plant not resume operations until officials know what caused the fire.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20110912/NEWS01/110919937#nuke-plant-fire-gets-closer-look

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Photo: http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=OW&Date=20110912&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=110919937&Ref=AR&maxw=490&maxh=275
A file photo of then-flooded Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station.

[defendandprotect]

1. Most of these plants are old, poorly maintained and should be shut down ...

However, Global Warming will bring more droughts, floods, storms, hurricanes,

cyclones, tornados -- and EARTHQUAKES --

all in increasing numbers and severity --


We need to be shutting down the 103/106 nuclear reactors we have across America --

some are built on faults -- all are built close to water -- two in Ohio are built

on Lake Erie -- a shource of drinking water.


Obama has gone gaga for oil drilling --

and also for building a new generation of nuclear reactors in US --

TO BOIL WATER TO CREATE STEAM -- !!!

[Louisiana1976]

2. Global warming has nothing to do with earthquakes. n/t

[Tesha]

3. Actually, there can be "second order effects" as crustal loads shift...

...with the changes in sea level and ice loads.

Tesha

[defendandprotect]

4. You're wrong -- Glacier melting is shifting pressures on tectonic plantes and ...

Global Warming is therefore bringing not only more earthquakes but more

seriosu earthquakes --

Check DU archives -- or check internet --

[wordpix]

5. don't forget the cost of the plants, the waste problem that has no solution, & US nukes cannot

be built without $36 billion in guaranteed taxpayer loans---so says Obama and he's wrong...