{"id":13589,"date":"2011-06-17T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-17T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T09:15:13","slug":"slow-breakinghot-nebraska-nuclear-plant-emergency-level-4-about-to-get-worse-june-14-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/17\/slow-breakinghot-nebraska-nuclear-plant-emergency-level-4-about-to-get-worse-june-14-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"SLOW Breaking\/HOT: Nebraska Nuclear Plant: Emergency Level 4 &#038; About to Get Worse &#8211; June 14, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Calhoun near Omaha, Nebraska<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;On June 6, 2011, the Fort Calhoun pressurized water nuclear reactor 20 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska entered emergency status due to imminent flooding from the Missouri River. A day later, there was an electrical fire requiring plant evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on June 8th, NRC event reports confirmed the fire resulted in the loss of cooling for the reactor&#8217;s spent fuel pool. The discussion includes specific details of the technical failures at Fort Calhoun, the risks of coolant loss at overcrowded &#8220;spent&#8221; fuel pools, and the national hazards of nuclear facilities along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, and other water sites during the current period of floods and climate change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Lots of Video (unable to post it here) through the 14th of April, 2011 and details at link below.<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why the HELL is this NOT FRONT PAGE and TOP OF NEWSCASTS? Today, the 16th of June, Brian Williams gave a one minute synopsis with an introduction calling it A FOOTNOTE!<\/p>\n<p>GE OWNED NBC\/UNIVERSAL (Just sold to Comcast) and builds Nuclear Power plants. Any Connection? What about the rest of Corporate Media?<\/p>\n<p>Jezzzus!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please RePOST!!!<\/p>\n<p>LINK: <b>http:\/\/curtiswalker.posterous.com\/arnie-gundersen-nebraska-nuclear-plant-emerge#<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Without Fairwinds, which I monitor, how would we know anything, much less details and danger, about this?<\/p>\n<p>Crossposted at CURTISWALKER.POSTEROUS.COM, Freeflightnewmedia.typepad.com and elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p><i><b>AGAIN, Please RePOST!!!<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>LINK: <b>http:\/\/curtiswalker.posterous.com\/arnie-gundersen-nebraska-nuclear-plant-emerge#<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Calhoun near Omaha, Nebraska<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;On June 6, 2011, the Fort Calhoun pressurized water nuclear reactor 20 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska entered emergency status due to imminent flooding from the Missouri River. A day later, there was an electrical fire requiring plant evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on June 8th, NRC event reports confirmed the fire resulted in the loss of cooling for the reactor&#8217;s spent fuel pool. 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