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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on June 30, 2011, 06:37:54 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1393944
Oh my.
Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-30-11 07:32 PM
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Nuke query: What if dam breaks? (Fort Calhoun & Cooper)
http://www.omaha.com/article/20110630/NEWS01/110639977/...
Photo: http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=OW&Date=...
Gavins Point Dam in South Dakota.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is asking for an explanation of the flooding that would occur should a dam break upstream of two Nebraska nuclear plants it monitors.
Combined, the six U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams on the flood-swollen Missouri River comprise one of the largest reservoir systems in the country. The dams are releasing historic amounts of water during what will be a summer of managed flooding in the Missouri River valley.
On Wednesday, the NRC regional office that oversees Nebraska sent an official request to the corps for its 2009 and 2010 analyses of what would happen if a dam fails.
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, 19 miles north of Omaha, was offline before the flooding and remains so because of it. The river surrounds the plant to a depth of about two feet.
FULL story and video at link.
franksolich remains calm and complacent.
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nadin bait.
Steve must be feeling amorous tonight.
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Only that idiot would be worried about Ft Calhoun. I'd bet good money it's safer then his house.
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Only that idiot would be worried about Ft Calhoun. I'd bet good money it's safer then his house.
Yeah, you would know, sir, because you're right there on the spot, while I'm way upriver.
NHSparky described to me how safe both power plants actually are, even if shut down.
My concern was more that these two plants provide Nebraska with one-third of our daily electrical usage, and I'm wondering what's going to happen with that. I got some good answers from others here.
Nebraska without electricity is like whiskey without alcohol.
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Where is Obama?
Obama hates hard working white people.
And I stand by that.
Hate them more if they are older and were not in a blood sucking union.
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Look dummy... a major dam breaks everyone downstream is screwed. End of story.
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Yeah, you would know, sir, because you're right there on the spot, while I'm way upriver.
NHSparky described to me how safe both power plants actually are, even if shut down.
My concern was more that these two plants provide Nebraska with one-third of our daily electrical usage, and I'm wondering what's going to happen with that. I got some good answers from others here.
Nebraska without electricity is like whiskey without alcohol.
Blasphemy! You can go to hell utterin' that sentence Coach!