Arnie Gundersen - Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, Nuclear Plant: Emergency Level 4. Interview by Robert Knight of Pacifica Radio Network

 Interview by Robert Knight of Pacifica Radio Network of Arnie Gundersen, nuclear plant expert, about the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant flood and fire, also about Fukushima

Readers, you are just not going to believe this -- and the mainstream media is not reporting on this. Furthermore, this reactor is near Omaha, but there are other reactors downstream along the Mississippi which may be in similar situations.

Arnie Gundersen's website:  www.fairewinds.com

Arnie Gundersen - Nebraska Nuclear Plant: Emergency Level 4 and Getting Worse


Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvvmrB7qEg
Part 2:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sTmzUzruu8
Part 3:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lva5N9VpAgw

Fort Calhoun near Omaha, Nebraska

"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.

Then, on June 8th, NRC event reports confirmed the fire resulted in the loss of cooling for the reactor's spent fuel pool. The discussion includes specific details of the technical failures at Fort Calhoun, the risks of coolant loss at overcrowded "spent" 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."

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June 15, 2011

Alexandra Bruce note:

In January 2010, the NRC cited the plant for failure to maintain procedures for combating a significant flood as recommended by Regulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix A, section 6.w, "Acts of Nature."

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June 15, 2011

Tom Burnett writes on Rense.com on that: "Ft. Calhoun is the designated spent fuel storage facility for the entire state of Nebraska...and maybe for more than one state.*

"Calhoun stores its spent fuel in ground-level pools which are underwater anyway - but they are open at the top. When the Missouri river pours in there, it's going to make Fukushima look like an x-ray. But that's not all. There are a LOT of nuclear plants on both the Missouri and Mississippi and they can all go to hell fast...

"This could be nothing...or, it could wipe out the middle of America." (read more)
http://thecomingcrisis.blogspot.com/2011/06/nebraska-nuclear-plant-emergency-level.html