Flood Berm Collapsed At Nebraska Nuclear Plant
FORT CALHOUN, Neb. (AP) - A berm holding back floodwater at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station has collapsed.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it’s monitoring the Missouri River flooding at the plant, which has been shut down since early April for refueling.
The 2,000-foot berm collapsed about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, allowing the swollen river to surround two buildings at the plant. The NRC says those buildings are designed to handle flooding up to 1014 feet above sea level. The river is at 1006.3 feet and isn’t forecast to exceed 1008 feet.
The NRC says its inspectors were at the plant when the berm failed and have confirmed that the flooding has had no impact on the reactor shutdown cooling or the spent fuel pool cooling.
NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko will visit the plant Monday.
Source: kmtv.com (AP)
I have been covering this story for weeks because I had a very strong feeling this was going to happen, where are the government warnings of a potential imminent nuclear disaster? Who would of thought flooding in the middle of the state could maybe cause the same problem as over in Japan. This is a good example of why we need renewable energy and I hope soon people will start to care about it where i live (5 miles from a nuclear plant) for virginia alternative energy and virginia renewable energy solutions. The power was cut to the station today, the transformers were flooded.The media is silent, even in the wake of Fukushima.