COOPER NUCLEAR STATION HIT BY FLASH FLOOD??? LATEST: DHS CLAIMS "VIOLENT EXTREMISTS HAVE, IN FACT, OBTAINED INSIDER POSITIONS"

I realize that but the fact of the matter is there seem to be conflicting reports of which levee(s) broke and nothing has been updated for hours..the Brownville levee is only a short distance upstream from Cooper and the initial reports indicated rapidly gushing water

imo it could do a lot of damage

Latest news on flooding

It's a record: The National Weather Service Office in Valley reports that river stages along the Missouri at both Plattsmouth and Nebraska City have preliminarily surpassed record flood stages set in 1993. At Plattsmouth, the previous record was 35.65 feet; on Thursday it was at 36.03 feet. The previous record in Nebraska City was 27.19 feet; Thursday's level was 27.79 feet.

Reopened: The Interstate 29/680 interchange near Loveland has reopened, the Iowa Department of Transportation said. Mitigation work, including the use of sandbags, barrier walls and pumps, allowed for the reopening. The interchange remains vulnerable to increased water levels.

Levees patrolled: The City of Bellevue said it has been informed by the Papio-Missouri River Natural Resource District that the district's levees along the Missouri River east and south of Bellevue are being monitored 24 hours a day by the Nebraska Army National Guard.

Levee tested: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says discharges from the Oahe Dam and runoff from the Bad River pushed the Missouri to within 1 foot of the top of the levees at Pierre, S.D. The corps reduced discharges from the dam when the Bad River began rising from heavy rain this week. The Bad River drains into the Missouri at Fort Pierre.

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[link to omaha.com]

So could you Explain just how THAT works, when the levee breaks the WATER GUSHES freely!!! So how does THIS help us down STEAM when the WATER Levels JUST DROPed in MISSOURI as the WAS at 9pm. a BREACH the in Missouri and the you-tube video showed the levee washed AWAY-and water GUSHING on DOWN-STEAMED!!! They Evacuated the people living in the area. AS I would think shortly that water is going to hit our DAMS downsteam full BLAST!!!

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[link to www.weather.com]

Homeland´s Naplitano to meet Nato´s Rasmussen in Vienna next week

thanks for that link..

Issued by The National Weather Service
Kansas City/Pleasant Hill, MO
9:31 am CDT, Fri., Jun. 24, 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PLEASANT HILL HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR LEVEE FAILURE AND OVERTOPPING IN... WESTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI... WESTERN ATCHISON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 930 AM CDT SATURDAY

* AT 922 AM CDT... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED FLOODING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. NUMEROUS LEVEE FAILURES AND OVERTOPPING INCIDENTS HAVE OCCURRED IN THE PAST 48 HOURS... INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT BREACHES NORTH OF BROWNVILLE IN ATCHISON COUNTY... AND WEST OF FORTESCUE IN HOLT COUNTY. WATER LEVELS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE IN THE MISSOURI FLOOD PLAIN OF FAR WESTERN ATCHISON AND HOLT COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. TRAVEL ON MANY STATE AND LOCAL ROADS WEST OF INTERSTATE 29 WILL BECOME IMPOSSIBLE IN SPOTS... IF NOT ALREADY IMPOSSIBLE.

* FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WESTERN HOLT AND WESTERN ATCHISON COUNTIES... INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF BIG LAKE... CORNING... FORTESCUE... PHELPS CITY AND WATSON.

THIS WILL IMPACT

MANY STATE AND LOCAL HIGHWAYS WEST OF I-29 POSSIBLY PARTS I-29... ESPECIALLY NEAR EXIT 99 OUTSIDE OF CORNING

Water always rushes from high to low.

So, why do some expect, the water from the broken levee would go up back to Missouri river and then on the other side of the river to Cooper?

Greetings franz_liszt

I can't believe it is so hard to get information with all the media we have available. Hope this is not like the Nabro eruption, where they put it on the news a WEEK later. Anyone have Local links, all I have is the weather network and US Corp of Engineers tweets for immediate updates.

slightly off topic: why are the measurements using decimals? why aren't they using inches? i don't get it. "36.03"? what's .03 of a foot? what's the difference between .19 of a foot and .79 of a foot? why divide the foot into slices of 100? may as well go metric already.

.25=1/4 inch
.50=1/2 inch
.75=3/4 inch

pretty simple if you ask me..metric is the complicated system imo

Last Edited by RTS on 06/24/2011 11:50 AM

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Large levee breach 3 miles up from Cooper Nuclear Station. Mandatory evacs
Deborah Dupre, Human Rights Examiner

Posted:06/24/2011 8:14 AM
Authorities: No worries

Around 9:00 Thursday night, a large levee breach occurred at Brownville , Mo. three miles upstream from Nebraska's Cooper Nuclear Station, the atomic reactor identical twin to Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 to 4. Mills County issued a mandatory evacuation order, are disconnecting power today, and say the General Electric Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor of Cooper Nuclear Plant that has been under an "unusual event declaration," is not threatened. NRC Chairman is heading to the site.

“This is a large breach and water will be moving rapidly. Persons should stay out of this area if previously evacuated due to danger,” the Atchison County Emergency Management office said in a prepared statement according to Nebraska State Paper.

"It happened so quick that they were concerned that they may not be able to escape. The water was coming through fast and hard. … We're not sure what the size of the break is so far," reported Mark Manchester, deputy emergency management director for Atchison County, Mo., Thursday evening." ( Lincoln Journal Star )

The World-Herald News Service reported that Mills County issued a mandatory evacuation order Thursday for residents in part of the county.

“The safety of the residents in those areas is our greatest concern, and we needed to take action,” said Sheri Bowen, public information officer for Mills County Emergency Management. ( World-Herald )

Iowa Army National Guard, the levee and drainage district staff and emergency management personnel are patrolling the levee.

CNN reported Thursday, "It was catastrophic flooding from Japan's March 11 tsunami that knocked out cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, resulting in three reactors melting down and producing the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

"This year's Midwestern flooding has also led to a spate of rumors about the Fort Calhoun plant that Omaha Public Power and the NRC have been trying to knock down."

Although the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has stated that both the Cooper Nuclear Station at Brownville and the Fort Calhoun plant remain safe, NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko will soon visit the state a spokesman for Senator Ben Nelson (NE-D) confirmed to Nebraska Watchdog.

On June 9th, Cooper Nuclear Plant issued a "Current Event Notification Report" to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that stated, "OFFSITE NOTIFICATION CONCERNING INABILITY TO MEET SLUDGE POND DISCHARGE PERMIT DUE TO RIVER LEVELS."

As of Thursday morning, the river at Brownville, 70 miles from Lincoln and Omaha, had climbed within a foot and a half from forcing Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD ) to declare an “Alert” and shut down the reactor according to Joe Jordon of the Nebraska Watchdog organization.

"While insisting that Nebraska’s two nuclear power plants remain safe in the face of record flooding from the Missouri River , the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Wednesday issued a statement noting among other things 'two feet of water' onsite in many areas of the Fort Calhoun plant which is 19 miles north of Omaha," Jordon reported Wednesday.

The nuclear power watchdog, Beyond Nuclear, has reported that Cooper Nuclear Station is an "atomic reactor -- identical twin to Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 to 4" and that a sludge pond has been uncontrollably releasing contents into river due to flooding.

Are Cooper's uncontrolled sludge releases into the Missouri River in fact non-radiological? This document from Cooper (see pages 30-31) shows that sludge at Pilgrim 1 (also a GE BWR Mark 1, just like Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 to 4) was intensely radioactive, begging the question, are the sludges in question in the holding pond at Cooper also radioactive? Note also a radiological overexposure incident at Brunswick Unit 2 atomic reactor in North Carolina, yet another GE BWR Mark 1.

Here's an overhead pic of the plant..I'm not sure where the sludge pond would be

[link to oi53.tinypic.com]

maybe the darker areas on the bottom?

I hoped you saved it because it has been pulled.

I think I know what you're saying..they are trying to candycoat the latest updates by saying since the level on the gauge went down that Cooper had some kind of reprieve from the flooding..that makes no sense whatsoever imo because the gauge is upriver from the plant..

[link to water.weather.gov]

zoom out on the google map on the link above and look how narrow that flood plain is..I personally don't know how it couldn't be impacted by flash flooding especially if the Brownville levee was also taken out..

they were predicting imminent failure for that levee last Sunday..they weren't sure if it would even last the night

that was 5 days ago

here's a video some guy did on the 22nd..I wish he had a better camera but all in all not too bad..

the best shots of it start at around 6 minutes in and get better towards the end at around 13 minutes..

I hope he does another video today

we did not do any of that. the money went for the underground bunkers, domestic surveillance, weapons of mass destruction, human experimentation in some of those bases underground, drug running, illegal arms deals, child trafficking, psychotronic weapons in space and on the ground to torture Americans and others with, a police state, and into the pockets of corrupt CEOs and politicians.

a lot of the latter.

what you said was the cover story.

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looks like cooper has been leaking radiation BEFORE this flood when it sickend 3 workers!

RTS, the water is the same inside Missouri and outside. Both flows south by gravitation. It went DOWN to the flood plain. WORST case is, it floods the levee at Cooper again in opposite direction. Then you have nearly the same situation as without levee break. Even better, because a lot of water left the river and remains east of the river.

Don't try to invent another perpetuum mobile

Greetings franz_liszt

lol. the measurements are in feet, not inches. 12 inches in a foot.

so

.25 = 3 inches
.50 = 6 inches
.75 = 9 inches

27.79 feet is about 27 feet 9 inches.

hmmm i like your logic,

People make some time to post the news about the plants on mainstream sources, collect links, make mailing lists, demand better precaution measures and imidiate secuirity evaluation of all the Plants near New Madrid Fault Line and Misoury river, this is a serious threat to a majority of the American people, that is radiation, These areas have been controversial subjects for months, now the real problems start to emerge, The person above me stated somehow my logic, how is this possible?

Thanks,

I was going to add this but sure enough someone beat me to it ;-)

^depends on what the definition of 'is' is^

I think you have it backwards. The levee breaking is a "good" thing for the plant. Levees border the SIDES of rivers so a levee breach means that the side of a river gave out spilling the contents into that side area. The levee breach near Brownville was on the Missouri side so the impact on the Cooper plant would be beneficial, as it takes the pressure off for a while, as the Cooper plant is on the Nebraska side. Now if it were a dam, which keeps waters from flowing down river, then there would be a serious issue. Think of a levee as pricking the side of a balloon, and a dam as the knot at the end.

look at that map above again..you can see the contours of the levee..it runs parallel to highway 136 (actually under it) and is roughly E-W..there is another shorter one just N of the bridge that runs N-S

there is no levee S of the bridge imo

the gauge is N of the bridge

Last Edited by RTS on 06/24/2011 04:51 PM

Why is the NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko waiting untill Monday to visit the nuclear plants?????


He and the whole wrecking crew should get in boat and go there now!!!!


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The idiots who planned and built these plants apparently have NO common sense! Knowing it was flood level, why didn't they build the land up?

Okay people, is the plant flooded or what?



^ Just for good measure.

here's a link to a topographical map..scroll a bit N to the bridge area and the map gives the actual elevations (click on the globe to hide the box)

[link to mapper.acme.com]

btw..here's an interesting article on the Brownville Bridge

[link to www.dailyyonder.com]

edit to add: the topo map does appear to show a levee at 904' ft S of the bridge..but..if you switch to the terrain map the contours of a levee do not show up..

Last Edited by RTS on 06/24/2011 05:39 PM