The nuke disaster you didn't hear about!

[Wolfmoon]

These could be potentially disastrous.





June 2011

Nebraska Nuclear Plant at Level 4 Emergency

Airspace Over Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Still Closed


Second Nebraska Nuclear Plant Threatened By Flooding

 

[sparky]

i find it hard to argue safety given elements with a milion years 1/2 life, juxtaposed with big energy's penchant to sleeze by what of it they can....

 

[flacaltenn]

WolfMoon:

You need to trim that list of "trusted" leftist reading material.. NO ONE declared a LEVEL 4 emergency at that Nebraska plant.. And any link that SCREAMS that fact in a headline has an audience of idiots.

WASHINGTON—A nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Neb., on Tuesday briefly lost the ability to cool a pool of used nuclear fuel after a fire at the site, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

The NRC said the plant recovered cooling ability without activating backup systems and "temperatures in the pool remained at safe levels." The public was not in danger because the plant has been shut down since early April for a refueling outage, the agency said.

Spent fuel pools in the U.S. have received increased scrutiny after a recent crisis in Japan involving potentially overheated nuclear fuel and the release of dangerous radiation.

The agency declared an alert, the second of four emergency classes, at 9:40 a.m., 10 minutes after "an indication of fire" in a building at the plant. The NRC didn't disclose the cause of the fire. Automatic fire control systems activated and the fire was out by 10:20 a.m., the agency said. The plant is operated by the Omaha Public Power District.

Nebraska Nuclear Plant Lost Cooling System After Fire - WSJ.com

Reactor wasn't on-line. Had nothing (apparently) to do with flooding. No Back-up systems even activated. We COOL now?? Very Cool..