DisastersNebraska nuclear plant on flood alert
Levees in northern Missouri were failing late Saturday and Sunday as a result of massive release of water from upstream dams; farmland and houses in two Missouri counties — Holt and Atchison — were flooded and residents evacuated; two Nebraska nuclear power plant place on flood alerts
The Cooper nuclear plant is on flood alert // Source: mywausanews.com
Levees in northern Missouri were failing late Saturday and Sunday as a result of massive release of water from upstream dams. Farmland and houses in two Missouri counties – Holt and Atchison – were flooded and residents evacuated.
Fox News reports that Nebraska Public Power District issued a flood alert Sunday for its Cooper power plant near Brownville, Nebraska. The flood alert is the lowest of the four emergency alerts established by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The plant was operating normally on Sunday. Another nuclear plant in eastern Nebraska – the Fort Calhoun Station, near Blair, Nebraska – was issued a similar flood alert on 6 June. The plant was closed in April for regular maintenance work, and will not open until the flood threat subsides.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Kevin Wingert told Fox News that the reason for the flooding was an unusually intense rainy season, not mismanagement. “What we are dealing with is a massive weather system that put a lot of precipitation in the system…. The end result is that water has to go somewhere.”
