Developing - Inland Flood Crisis At Texas Nuclear Plant!! Texans Weigh In!

The following article on the plants safety in the wake of Fukushima makes similar points about a hurricane storm surge, but makes an important distinction about inland flooding from the Colorado river about 2 miles away from the plant, and that the plant is built to withstand a "worst case scenario" of a 100 year flood on the Colorado River! A 100 year flood, hmmm...-

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From the article-

"STP spokesman Buddy Eller said the five-foot-thick, bunker-like concrete reactor domes reinforced with steel are able to withstand hurricane Category 5 winds and a 41-foot storm surge...“We’re built to withstand a worst-case scenario involving a hurricane with combined wind and a 100-year flood along that Colorado River,” Eller said. “...we’re located at 29 feet above sea level.”

So from the above two articles and from the STP nuclear plant spokesman himself, the plant can withstand a 41 foot storm surge from the ocean, but being at 29 feet above sea level, that's only 12 feet of inland flooding, what they describe as a mere 100-year flood along the Colorado River...

Let's take a look at the river level gauge on the Colorado River at Bay City, about 10 miles upstream from the STP nuclear plant which is located 2 miles from the Colorado River-

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The Colorado River at Bay City is forecast to surge 27 feet in the next two days!

And considering the river is currently 9 feet above what is forecasted at this time according to the graph, this is likely to surpass the record crest of the Colorado River in the next few days. That 100 year flood the plant spokesman talked about which happened in 1913, cresting at a level of 56.1 feet.

The highest crest of the Colorado River at Bay City since the STP nuclear plant began operating was 24.04 feet in 1991-

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They designed a nuclear plant to withstand a 100 year flood on the Colorado River?

That's weak, and stupid for a nuclear plant. And it looks like STP will be facing a major test in the coming days, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it, for cryin' in the sink!

Great post OP!

Well that sucks.

I detest nuclear power. If everything goes perfectly they can be okay except for the waste. But when does everything go perfectly?

Crap.

Plant at 29 feet above sea level.

Plant designed to handle floods up to 41 feet above sea level.

Meaning, she can handle 12 feet of flood and no more.

According to Wikipedia (my bolding),

"It... ...is cooled by a 7,000-acre (2,800 ha) reservoir, which eliminates the need for cooling towers."

So my thought is that if the flooding causes debris to get into the reservoir, could a blockage cause the cooling process to be disrupted?

Any comments on this possibility?

This is scary OP doom boners activated! 5 star

Yes this is why those types of systems are so susceptible to water problems. Debris, too much water, looss of pump power, lots of things can shattter the dream of nuke power. But before it goes, mmmm people love that juice! Stay safe Texas, even after all the shit you talk about Cali peeps, we don't hate you. We are all nuke threatened Americans.

Don't worry, they had the foresight to tuck the backup generators away safely in the basement well protected from the storms damaging winds...

We will never learn...

Lets all hope this does not turn into another FUKU Fuckup.

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Well at least it will stay nice and cool under all that water.

And yet if a Fukishima cover up (Japan was secretly shipping nuke material out the back, Israel nuked them for it) was floated in the USA, we would need to have a low life scumbag Executive like Obummer, to lie right to our faces and tell us to go back to sleep. Thankfully he has been sent to the trash dumpster of history, hopefully never to do anything but peek out, and stfu. I think he's living on borrowed time for the rest of his life. Hmm maybe we all are.

I used to work at that plant. The pumps at the Colorado river that can pump it dry in just minutes.

[pulls up a chair and offers it smiling]

Welcome.

I watched them set the dome on unit 2

They can pump the Colorado river dry in just minutes???

Where do they pump all that water too, Huston?

Okay so your feeling is this plant is okay right now. I am sure folks are glad to hear that.

Any thoughts on that inelligible puke Obummer and what he did at Fuki? Comments on Fuki events are important to our allies the Japanese, and also to us as Americans. Some shit went down there, that's for sure, bunch of our sailors got nukes and are suing TEPCO, but we Americans don't get to hear about it.

TEPCO CAN SUCK OUR BALLS, fuck youuu TEPCO.

The 7000 acre reservoir is built more above ground then is it dug in the ground it has very tall walls made of earth holding the cooling water eliminating the need to be located on the water front like other plants.

Our sailors got NUKED not nukes. Nukes is what they babysit, NUKED is what happens when they are made to sail through fuckin rad cloud.

US Navy needs help from the top down. But how many know, the Navy of Texas, is the only Navy, ever to field sailing ships against Steam Ships, AND WIN? Yes, a Texas Captain, sailed two sail ships against the sparkling Mexican steamships and defeated them. HAIL TEXAS!

Yes, flooding it.

That's a fact. The 7000 acre reservoir..... Houston is about 100 miles north east of STP

SOUTHERN U.S. TO BECOME A NUCLEAR WASTELAND, OH WELL!!!!

MANKIND HAS BECOME A PARASITIC PLAGUE ON EARTH!!!!

ALL Mark I reactors should be shut down.
You know they wont do it.
Incompetence rules the day.

FACT, Most plants are way past expected life span and are being held together with band-aids and bubble gum

TEPCO was keen to invest in the STP nuclear plant in Texas before Fukushima:

"Decades without a major catastrophe and growing interest in low-carbon energy sources brought the nuclear power industry within grasp of a renaissance in recent years as utilities from San Antonio to China looked to nukes as the solution to energize 21st-century population growth.

That momentum halted on March 11, when a 8.9-magnitude earthquake triggered a monster tsunami that both knocked out primary power to a nuclear power complex along Japan’s northeast coast and washed out the backup generators, causing a series of explosions, fires, radiation leaks, and, possibly, meltdowns within most of the six reactors at the Fukushima nuclear complex...

The chaotic situation is especially surreal for South Texans because CPS Energy, TEPCO, and potentially the Japanese government itself, were among investors lined up to fund expansion of the STP nuclear complex near Bay City. A partnership between NRG Energy, Toshiba, and federal contractor Shaw Group (in charge of maintenance at STP), were preparing to construct two advanced boiling water reactors (ABWR) at the South Texas Project nuclear complex where CPS already owns 40 percent of STP reactors 1 and 2..."

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That's not even remotely what happened.