Core Overload?

POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 00:42
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SIGNYM

Monday, June 27, 2011 9:24 PM

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100% chance of reactor core damage if floodwaters went above 1010 ft. at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant, NRC said in 2010 — River now around 1,007 ft. and expected to rise

http://enenews.com/100-chance-reactor-core-damage-caused-flood-rising-
above-1010-feet-ft-calhoun-nuke-plant-nrc-2010-river-around-1007-ft-expected-rise

FREMDFIRMA

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:14 AM

That is not a happy sounding thing.
Where the hell are the army engineers... oh, right.
So much for national security, pffth.

-F

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 4:38 PM

Nothing quite like flood assisted dispersal of radioactive contamination across a settled flood plain.

Jeezy peezy. When did America turn into a frikkin' third world country?

NIKI2

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 4:55 PM

On the subject of which:

Quote:
A raging wildfire near the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will keep the facility closed for a second day on Tuesday as firefighters battle brisk winds and warm temperatures, authorities said.

"No other fires are currently burning on Lab property, no facilities face immediate threat, and all nuclear and hazardous materials are accounted for and protected," a statement from the lab said.

The Las Conchas fire, which flared up during the weekend, was reportedly about a mile from the lab's southwestern boundary Monday night, according to a statement on InciWeb, an online interagency database that tracks fires, floods and other disasters.

The fire, which has spread across nearly 44,000 acres, is burning to the north and northeast, according to InciWeb. It was 0% contained as of Monday night.

Additionally, a one-acre spot fire was reported on the lab's property, at its southern boundary.

"Air crews dumped water at the site within the Lab's Technical Area 49 and brought the blaze under control," a statement from the lab said.

Los Alamos, a center of American nuclear science, is one of the nation's top national-security research facilities.

The fire near the lab has raised concerns about whether hazardous materials kept there are being adequately guarded. Authorities say they are.

"They have anticipated the problem of fire, and they've taken precautions," Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico said Monday. "The structures that are central to the operation of the laboratory are well protected."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/28/new.mexico.los.alamos/index.html?hpt=
hp_t2

Dunno what the result of fire would be, as opposed to flooding, but it's truly strange...maybe the End Times truly ARE upon us...

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

KWICKO

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:09 AM

The irony of it is just too rich, really.

This, after being told just a few months ago that OUR nuclear plants were virtually impervious to the kinds of hazards that befell Fukushima.

You could almost hear the voices... "Nope, no chance of a tsunami HERE! After all, this is the middle of the country - how could a wall of water ever hit us HERE?! Oh. Dang it. "

And now Los Alamos is in danger. Nope, not water or earthquake. Fire. Big fire. Uncontrolled fire. Fire threatening to burn the labs that first unleashed that particular fire on the world

Sometimes we make plans. Sometimes it feels like fate laughs at those plans, cackling wildly while whispering coldly, "I don't *think* so..."

KWICKO

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:20 AM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Nothing quite like flood assisted dispersal of radioactive contamination across a settled flood plain.

Jeezy peezy. When did America turn into a frikkin' third world country?

Somewhere around the time that a group of guys armed with sophisticated weapons known as "box cutters" launched such a devastating attack on us that it eventually collapsed our economy, caused us to spend untold trillions on "preemptive wars", and led us to be directly and indirectly involved in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of other people who had nothing to do with the attack.

Here's the real WMD:

Because of these WMD, we can build roads in Afghanistan and Iraq, but we can no longer build and maintain roads here at home. We can build their people new schools, but can't afford to keep our teachers. We can focus on their infrastructure, but lack the ability or the will to repair our own failing infrastructure.

But we still have the bread and circuses. For now.

KWICKO

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:23 AM

Quote:
Posted by Niki:

Dunno what the result of fire would be, as opposed to flooding, but it's truly strange...maybe the End Times truly ARE upon us...

If they are, it's because we brought them on ourselves.

Pat Robertson says it's all the fault of "the gays"...

RIONAEIRE

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:48 AM

Further proof to me that we don't have any business using nuclear power anymore, its time to grow up and move along, we can't control this stuff if crap happens and in realityland crap always happens eventually. This is our oppertunity to realize that we need to start moving away from nuclear power because of its sinister force energy.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

FREMDFIRMA

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:42 PM

Salem 2 went down a while ago as well, hot shutdown mode due to coolant pump failure, or so I hear.

-F

HARDWARE

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:06 PM

I checked and checked all of the news sources but I couldn't find any updates.

Have we all died yet?

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics - RAH

...and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36

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