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by Flytox » 18/06/11, 22:51

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by Flytox » 18/06/11, 23:27

It all started on June 6, when an alert was launched due to an imminent flood from Missouri. Due to heavy rain added to the snowmelt, the Point Gavins dam, located upstream, had to release a very large amount of water. A wave sweeps over Missouri and floods the surroundings of the power plant.


They did not foresee neither the floods ... nor the release of the barrage and even less the conjunction of the 2 yet linked ..... ?????

This year at the Irresponsible Awards, nuclear is likely to be well represented. : Mrgreen:

http://ecologie.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/01 ... de-lannee/
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by FPLM » 20/06/11, 11:48

Flytox wrote:They did not foresee neither the floods ... nor the release of the barrage and even less the conjunction of the 2 yet linked ..... ?????

And if we knew the number of such dangerous plants.
Besides most of them are obsolete. For example, in Thiange, in Belgium, reactor 1 is 35 years old ... They are constantly filling cracks in concrete!
And the most beautiful in history: this power plant is right on the south fault, a major fault in geological failure (see Wikipedia).
It was obviously not designed in function, probably considering this flaw as "harmless". : Shock:
And yet, it only takes a jolt of this flaw, even an exception in its peaceful life, to crumble this plant and its 3 reactors.
The only way to make these lobbies fold in favor of less morbid energy is to get out of the network, even if it means building a wooden windmill, cut with a butter knife! It will always be more reasonable than continuing to finance (expensive) this infamous shit.
A video circulates on the internet, it is a French expatriate in Japan who lives 200km from Fukushima. Here it is (I don't know if this link will be valid for a long time because censorship does its work): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjdqfv_parti-international-contre-le-nucleaire-et-les-ogm_news.
His testimony is poignant, alarming and truly creepy. He says that providing alternative electricity would cost us barely € 10 a month! Let's all think carefully and do our accounts. It seems entirely feasible to me, even for very small budgets.
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by Flytox » 20/06/11, 19:26

It is not a geological fault as badly placed as it is that will stop the profit taking of our thinking heads .....

For the link:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjdqfv ... s-ogm_news.

It has already been put in another post by Lejustemilieu:

https://www.econologie.com/forums/sortir-du- ... 0-160.html
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by Flytox » 21/06/11, 22:05

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by Flytox » 25/06/11, 10:13

http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/06/21 ... -unis.html

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A new nuclear power plant flooded in the United States.

21/06/2011 at 14:14 p.m. - updated on 22/06/2011 at 16:31 p.m. | 8338 views | 88 reactions

The Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant, made up of a 500 MW pressurized water reactor in the state of Nebraska, is beautiful and well invaded by the flood waters of the Missouri since June 6. According to the network coming out of nuclear power, The waste containing Cesium 137 stored on the site since 1992 would hold a risk of contamination more consequent than the quantity released by the four reactors of Fukushima. A significant risk exists apart from that of the submersion of swimming pools which contain 670 tonnes of used fuel for radioactivity of 100 million curies, the flood can damage the electrical cooling and power supply system of the power plant. Only an embankment in a sandbag would have been urgently built to provide some semblance of security. Fort Calhoum is currently on high alert ...


According to a non-governmental network (http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accide ... alhoun.htm), a potentially irradiated water release occurred on June 13 at a rate of approximately 400 liters per minute for an indefinite period. On June 17, the Omaha Public Power District which manages the plant reported the existence of a "hole" in the ground which could have affected the safety of the site linked to the flooding. This hole would have been filled the same day.

This plant was shutdown for recharging a third of its fuel since April 9 when the flood occurred. On June 7, after the start of the flood, a fire broke out in an electrical cabinet causing a cut for more than 90 minutes, stopping inter alia the cooling of the swimming pools. The storage areas of Fort Calhoum are now completely flooded with water!

The Missouri spillover that started on May 21 now threatens Cooper's generating station. A new alert for this plant has been launched. If the water still rises 30 cm, this plant will also be shut down.
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by gegyx » 25/06/11, 11:59

and Missouri joins in St Louis, Mississippi ...
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by Remundo » 25/06/11, 19:20

Fort Calhoun
[The water level at Ft. Calhoun nuclear plant] reached a height of nearly 1,007 feet above sea level at the plant yesterday. [...]

The NRC responded in its October 2010 letter that once flooding reached 1,004 feet, water would have entered the plant and the ability of emergency workers to move around the site would “significantly degrade.” [...]

At 1,010 feet, water would begin to enter the auxiliary building, “shorting power and submerging pumps. The plant could then experience a station blackout with core damage estimated within 15 to 18 hours, ”under a worst-case scenario, the NRC said. [...]

Source New York Times
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by dedeleco » 26/06/11, 18:26

Additional information:
Why is there a Media Blackout on Nuclear Incident at Fort Calhoun in Nebraska?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=25369
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by Christophe » 27/06/11, 13:01

Closer to home:

Nuclear: serial incidents at the Paluel power station

JUNE 22, 2011 | BY JADE LINDGAARD ​​AND MICHEL DE PRACONTAL

Repeated leaks, releases of radioactive gas, triggering of warning beacons, contamination of workers: for more than a month, one of the largest French nuclear power plants, the Paluel site in Haute-Normandie, has been experiencing malfunctions serial. The multiplication of incidents creates a wind of panic among the agents who work there, according to testimonies and exclusive documents collected by Mediapart. The Paluel power station alone produces around 7% of the national electricity.

The collective concern is starting to manifest itself on the Internet: "Centrale de Paluel: EDF in the footsteps of Tepco?" This provocative formula, which compares the French electrician to the operator of the Fukushima plant, does not come from an anti-nuclear group. It appears at the head of a CGT press release from the Dieppe region (to read here), where the Paluel power station is located.

With four 1300 megawatt (MW) reactors, this site, which employs 1250 EDF employees, is one of the three largest nuclear power plants in France (along with those of Gravelines and Cattenom). Commissioned between December 1985 and June 1986, the Paluel site did not pose any particular problem during the first two decades of its operation.

But for some time, various technical problems have accumulated on reactor n ° 3, which one of our interlocutors describes as "the most fishy section of the site": an oil leak on the alternator, a leak of water from the primary circuit, a leak of radioactive gas in the reactor building, as well as a leak in one or more fuel sheaths.

So far concealed, these malfunctions are not disputed by the central management. But the interpretation of their gravity diverges radically from one source to another. All agree, however, that there is a growing concern among officers and, for some, anxiety and panic. One of our interlocutors even speaks of "stifled terror"!

He said that a building near the reactor had to be evacuated several times because of the triggering of the alarm measuring the presence of harmful gases in the air. Employees “forced boxes containing iodine lozenges” to guard against possible contamination. This reaction reveals a high level of stress in personnel who are nevertheless trained to work in the specific context of nuclear installations. Concern fueled by the fact that "the alarm went off all the time", according to another source. So that the detection thresholds for these gaseous releases ended up being raised to obtain silence.

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Suite / source: http://www.mediapart.fr/article/offert/ ... 3fb25c1a15
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