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Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant
mdsolar writes "A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station shut down in early April for refueling, and there is no water inside the plant, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. Also, the river is not expected to rise higher than the level the plant was designed to handle. NRC spokesman Victor Dricks said the plant remains safe."
"It seems that there really was no danger."
I assume you don't have any real estate 15 miles around the reactors?
Seems like the flood preparations at the operating plant Cooper have made it very difficult to access emergency equipment. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/science/earth/27nuke.html
Not really, because in the 70s we could afford our nice big gas hogs thanks to cheap gas. man I miss the car I had then, a 71 Le Mans SS with a 455 that topped out at 155MPH stock. the thing was a primer nightmare that made it so damned easy to take money from snooty college kids in their Vettes. Sadly once gas got over $1 a gallon it was costing me over $100 to make the 105 mile round trip to the capital so I had to give her up. I miss her...sniff!
As for TFA I still don't get why we are still using the monster reactors anymore. Don't get me wrong, as someone who has a couple of them in his state I do enjoy the cheap power and the fact most apts here throw in electric for free,but with transmission losses it would seem the smarter move to switch to those small thorium reactors that can simply be buried in a shipping crate and provide power to a single town.
You make a joke about burning dinosaurs and I'd counter the current reactor tech is 70s era dinosaur crap. We really need to be looking at small cheap and easy to set up reactors over these giant mega monsters. These mega monsters are about as inpracticable today as my 71 Pontiac. Did I mention I miss her? man the gas on those rides sucked but they just don't build them like that anymore, that and my 73 Gold Duster had to be two of the most easy to drive and comfortable rides i ever owned. Back then cars were actually FUN with a capital F, not like these plastic bubble jobs.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
The problem with nukes is that letting private companies run them for profit means they'll cut costs wherever possible. Look at how Deepwater Horizon blew up: They ignored a whole load of safety regulations because they thought nothing bad could happen and it's just cheaper to skip on the safety stuff that'll never get used anyway.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
The water level around Fukushima was not expected to rise higher than the level the plant was designed to handle either. And according to some reports, the Fukushima plant was not even able to handle the earthquake itself even though it was designed to handle it.
Now I'm all for modern nuclear plants, we should be building a lot more of them, but I've learned to take official reports on nuclear incidents with a grain of salt