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Radioactive Leak at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station
Overwhelmed by the rising Missouri River, a 2000-foot stretch of a protective water balloon, surrounding the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska, collapsed at 1:25 AM on Sunday, June 26.
Two days earlier, Kansas State University reported an emergency when radiation leaked at 149 times the Derived Air Concentration (DAC) limit for Iodine during a trial run of its reactor.
Six and a half hours after the Ft Calhoun water berm collapsed, operators reported it to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, registering it as a “non-emergency.”
The NRC says there’s nothing to worry about. The flooding has “had no impact on the reactor shutdown cooling or the spent fuel pool cooling.”
Operating since 1973, Ft Calhoun filled its spent fuel cooling pool to capacity in 2006. The structure is 40 feet deep and 38 feet above ground. Ft Calhoun then built a dry cask storage facility, circled below, which the NRC says does not need the AquaDam water berm: On June 15, we first posted news about the threat to Nebraska’s nuclear plants, amid an apparent media blackout on the story. On June 23, the AP released its report of a year-long investigation into US nuclear plants indicating that 75% of them leak radiation.
Indeed, when Kansas State U ran its research reactor for 25 minutes on June 24, air quality monitors sounded the alarm that Iodine radiation had exceeded the DAC limit by 149 times above allowable levels, prompting KSU to declare an emergency.
Though four different systems caught the excessive radiation levels, operators reported their belief that this was due to the proximity of a radioactive sample near the monitors. They did not disclose what kind of sample nor why it was near four different monitors, if that’s even possible. Plus, the sample they discuss showed Cesium, not Iodine.
On May 31, NRC Chief Gregory Jaczko defended the NRC against allegations it is too closely allied with plant operators. He cited several examples where plants were ordered to hasten work on long overdue safety measures and applauded the NRC for its “transparency and openness.”
That transparency and openness didn’t apply to the events at both Nebraska’s nuclear power plants until after our June 15 article. It took a week for the NRC to mention it.
On June 21, Jaczko reported that the NRC ordered Ft Calhoun to beef up its flood response plan last year. He is confident that “the plant is very well positioned to ride out the current extreme Missouri River flooding while keeping the public safe.”
That same statement was reissued on June 26 after the collapse of the water berm, which is clearly part of Ft Calhoun’s flood response plan, along with sandbags and a mound of earth piled around the plant.
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen says that “sandbags and nuclear power plants should not be in the same sentence.” www.globalresearch.ca

@RadioGuy , I hope that even the most superficial minds will find these design statements suspicious, once they have pics of the buildings, and understand these e-mails are the exchanges of dons who trying a career in public service attempting to deceive the low-lives who did not make it to University College or Cambridge.

@Ian @lillymunster oh look spikes on June the 20th blimey it musta been international fairy dust day

@lillymunster looks like it www.utilityproducts.com all over England Scotland won't entertain them not sure about wales

Interesting:
2009: Westinghouse acquired Nuclear Fuel Industries LTD, Japans sole producer of nuclear fuel for boiling-water and pressurized-water reactor

In those emails, there are comments about how important it is to say that these new British reactors will be the Gen 3 AP1000, not like those old 60's designs.

From the Westinghouse wiki:
A revived interest in the nuclear power generation field led to Westinghouse's development of the AP1000 reactor

Hi all! Just looked at Albuquerque, NM RadNet readings and they're on the rise. Given the fires near Los Alamos I sincerely hope there isn't a connection. www.epa.gov

Arnie's latest update covers the apparent assembly handle : www.fairewinds.com

@Elaine I agree. Since Fuku has contaminated the Southwest I wouldn't be surprised if the uptick is simply due to the updraft of contaminated ash, but it definitely warrants watching.

If you put text to that effect, and then say "To open in a new tab or window, right click and choose ... etc."

@Ian can you think of a reason that shika makes the others look positively negligent?
@all look at employee numbers compared to contracters !!
www.jnes.go.jp

TEPCO starts system to cool another spent fuel pool at nuclear plant. TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday that it had activated a water circulation system to stably cool another spent nuclear fuel pool at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant, while also starting to transfer relatively low-level radioactive water at the plant to an artificial floating island called a megafloat.
The plant operator is hoping to efficiently cool the spent fuel pool of the No. 3 unit, having started a similar cooling system for the No. 2 unit's pool.
The utility known as TEPCO is trying to contain the world's worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, in line with a road map that aims to stabilize by January the plant's reactors and spent fuel pools, which lost their key cooling functions in the wake of the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
TEPCO is seeking to operate similar systems for the Nos. 1 and 4 units by July. The remaining Nos. 5 and 6 units at the six-reactor Fukushima plant achieved a stable condition called cold shutdown in the early days of the crisis. mdn.mainichi.jp

@LM Here's about the best independent watchdog data on what's where at LANL. About half the areas are "quantities unknown". It's an eye-opener though.
www.lasg.org

enenews July, 1 Radioactive Tellurium-129m detected in seawater for first time — Short 34 day half-life indicates new leak, TEPCO says no enenews.com Tellurium-129m has a short half-life of about 34 days. Its detection near the intake indicates the possibility of a new leak of radioactive water into the sea

@Peter Melzer LANL brought in air testing equipment immediately, and say so far it's clean. Of course, these says we almost need to include the caveat "consider the source."

@Majj @lillymunster Huh??? That's below the breach yesterday at Hway 30, so maybe this is one of those "outflow back into the river" breaches?