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Fire inside protected area and injured worker at Fort Calhoun nuclear plant
Event Number: 47001 | Date: 6/30/2011
OFFSITE NOTIFICATION DUE TO PERSON BEING EVACUATED
“At 1423 CDT, the Control Room was notified of a fire inside the protected area isolated to a portable water evacuation pump. At 1425 CDT, the Control Room was notified the fire was extinguished and the presence of an injured person; the Control Room immediately notified Washington County 911 to request emergency medical assistance. At 1511 CDT, injured person was transferred off-site by medical helicopter.
“This four-hour notification is being made pursuant to 10 CFR 50.72(b)(2)(xi), event or situation related to health and safety of on-site personnel for which notification to other government agencies has been made. NRC Resident informed.
“Due to this event, 1/2 gallon of gasoline was discharged to the Missouri River. The spill was reported to the State of Nebraska on 6/30/2011.
“This condition is also being reported pursuant to 10 CFR 50.72(b)(2)(xi) for News Release or Notification of Other Government Agency. Applicable state agencies have been notified per plant procedures.”
The injured person is a plant employee and was injured while refueling a portable generator. The injured person suffered burns to the forearms and neck. The licensee intends to issue a press release.
The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified.
Here’s the press release from the Omaha World-Herald: Fire injury: A worker refilling the gas tank of a portable pump at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station was burned Thursday after the tank caught fire. He was taken by medical helicopter to a Lincoln hospital for treatment of arm and facial burns. The employee was injured as he used an extinguisher to put out the fire, said Jeff Hanson, a spokesman for the Omaha Public Power District. The portable pump was outside the security building — surrounded by sandbags to keep floodwaters away — but the building is not part of the power facility. The pumps are used to remove water that seeps under the barrier. Hanson said the Fort Calhoun plant was not endangered in the incident. The worker was not identified, so that relatives could be notified.
Image of Fort Calhoun collected 6/28/11 by DigitalGlobe (click to enlarge):
Image: DigitalGlobe
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Flooding at Fort Calhoun: Water surrounds reactor building, spend fuel pool building
Flood tests not over for nuke plant:
Because of the collapsed water-filled dam, river water surrounds the main reactor building, mechanical building, spent fuel pool building and other structures.
Barriers at entrances to the buildings are keeping that water from entering, Hanson said. A “minor” amount of water did seep into the plant’s turbine building, he said, and was pumped out.
The buildings themselves and associated pumps and electrical equipment are designed to handle flooding up to 1,014 feet above sea level. The river is a little over 1,006 feet now and is forecast to reach a crest of 1,008 feet, barring extraordinary rains.
What if the river keeps rising? Read more…
Meanwhile, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko offered support for both utilities after visiting the plants. He said both Fort Calhoun and Cooper remain safe.
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Cooper Nuclear Station: Brownville currently listed on NOAA.gov map as “major flooding”
From NOAA.gov — Missouri River level at Brownville:
Flood Categories (in feet)
| Major Flood Stage: | 43 |
| Moderate Flood Stage: | 37 |
| Flood Stage: | 33 |
| Action Stage: | 31.5 |
As of 8:30 AM this morning, the Missouri River was at 44.5 ft. at Brownville, which is already above its historical crest of 44.3 feet set in 1993. When/if it reaches 45.5 ft, the Cooper Nuclear Station will shut down — 12 inches.
It looks like they’re forecasting the level to drop — I wonder if that takes into account the Army Corps’ plan to release more water from the Gavins Point Dam today?
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Morning in the bunker (Friday the 13th edition)
Politics:
- Watch RAND PAUL dodge a Fox News reporter in his own studio
- NEWT [GINGRICH] is so pro-marriage, he can’t stop doing it. ~ Stephen Colbert
- The firefighters, police, and teachers will remember the GOP’S PRIORITY was to PRESERVE TAX CUTS for the richest Americans and saving their jobs was a ‘bailout’
- AUDIO: Wow! DR LAURA is an asshole!
News:
- About 1.2 million uninsured New Yorkers could get health care coverage under FEDERAL HEALTH REFORM, according to a study released today.
- WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange said his organization is preparing to release the rest of the secret Afghan war documents it has on file.
- More rain, more damage: Flood-ravaged PAKISTAN appeals for help
Misc:
- STEPHEN HAWKING says that if humanity is going to survive in the long run, we must escape our planet.
- Some advice for COMCAST customers: if you want to keep your comcast.net e-mail address when significantly changing your services, you should mention this sometime during the process.
Song of the day:
Morning in the bunker
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FLOTSAM
- (Prison Planet / Alex Jones) — Establishment Media Pushes Brain Eating Vaccines “that virtually lobotomize people and rewire their minds into a state of subservient compliance so that their natural instinct to get angry and rebel against the tyranny being imposed upon them is neutered and sterilized.”
- Behold: a Goblin Shark! (Video) It has a long pointy head and a jaw that retracts out to bite and back into its face.
- Are your neighbor’s energy efficient windows melting your siding?
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NEWS:
- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked a federal judge Friday to allow same-sex marriages while an appeal over the struck-down law that banned them makes its way through the courts.
- Moscow choked out by smoke from wildfires. At least 52 people have died and 2,000 homes have been destroyed in the blazes. Russian officials admit 10,000 firefighters aren’t enough.
- Russia bans grain exports because of fire and drought, sending prices soaring
- Pakistani officials say at least 13 million people have been affected by floodwaters that have ravaged the northwest and now are sweeping southward, forcing thousands more to flee their homes.
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POLITICS:
- The New York Post accused President Obama of implicitly apologizing for the Hiroshima bombing by sending the U.S. ambassador to Japan to an event memorializing the world’s first atomic bomb attack. But by this standard, President Ronald Reagan apologized to the SS when he laid a wreath at a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, where SS members were buried.
- House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) can’t name a single thing he would do to reduce the deficit. He does admit that extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of Americans will “dig the hole deeper” when it comes to the deficit.
- Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI): Rush Limbaugh‘s attack on American-made electric vehicles is UN-AMERICAN
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Clinton: Help Pakistan. Text ‘SWAT’ to 50555
Secretary Clinton this morning encouraged Americans to text “SWAT” to 50555 to help with relief efforts in Pakistan and assist those devastated by the historic floods that have so far killed at least 1,500 people and adversely affected 3 million. You’ll be making a $10 donation to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees that will go toward providing tents, food, clothing, and clean water. (Reply with “yes” to confirm the gift.) — Foreign Policy
Nashville resources
Text ‘REDCROSS’ to 90999 to donate $10 to Nashville disaster relief
via Soup
You might not know it if you’re watching ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News or MSNBC but Nashville needs your help.
< p>Text ‘REDCROSS’ to 90999 to donate $10 to disaster relief.
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