[justa-hairyape]

Fort Calhoun is 40 or so miles from my parents house.

My guess is you want to be up wind. In fact, some may not be able to get up wind because they cannot cross the Missouri traveling east to west. Access roads are a mess.

We have new reports now about what happened at Fort Calhoun. See below links. The breaking of the levee surrounding the plant knocked out the diesel generators or what ever on site power they were using. They had to switch to batteries while they switched to off site power. They are now running on off site power. Darn good thing they ran that line ? Plan is to repair the levee dam. And note - Fort Calhoun is not running. Just holding a lot of dirty rods.

Floodwaters Breach Nebraska Nuke Berm

NRC chair tours Cooper plant

Rain should be leaving later today until next weekend. Should give them sometime to assess the damage.

Oh, and the GE/NRC spokesman said these are not the droids you are looking for.

Later.

[justa-hairyape]

There are conflicting stories out there now. This one claims that the levee break at Fort Calhoun caused the plant to routinely switch to backup diesel power and disconnect from off site power. After checking off-site power, they switched back to off-site power.

Back-up generators put to use at Nebraska nuclear plant

[redgolum]

They can head west if needed. That is up wind for the most part.

I heard from friends near by that the diesel generators are knocked out. Why they build those in the basement I will never know. The new line is good, but with all the storms that is a thin life line.

[Osage Orange]

Are you implying that wind blown radiation is likely.....