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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 08:00 PM
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If they lose the ability to cool the spent fuel pond at Fort Calhoun it will take 88 hours to boil.
That's to start boiling. I can't find out how long they have until it boils off sufficiently to cause a serious problem.

That's if the diesel generators fail, and I'm assuming there is a battery backup if that diesel fuel runs out.
The generators have four weeks of fuel. I do not know how long the batteries will last.
So that is a long way off.

That's if all things go according to plan, and people don't make stupid mistakes that even Eric Foreman would be proud of.

After all, it's not like anyone would be dumb enough to operate heavy machinery that might puncture the structure protecting the plant from a flood, near that structure, during a flood, right?

Ooooooh yeah...sorry. I guess I kind of forgot about that one.

Hey, this is America. We always make things come out alright. Just ask all those people living in those nice houses that are in foreclosure, or the ones who used to. Well, we make things come out alright for the rich, right?

Just how many gated communities are there downwind/around that plant?

If there are enough, we might just get that sucker airlifted to some shitty country we don't give a fuck about, and then make it look like a humanitarian act. That's the American way.

"Earlier today, President Obama announced a plan to airlift the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station to Dontgivashitastan as a part of our efforts to rebuild that nation after bombing it back to the stone age, for its own good, during operation Stonehenge. And it will be done, no tax dollars involved, with donations gathered at the US Chamber of Commerce meeting earlier today. Other donations were gathered at the Omaha Country Club, the Council Bluffs Country Club, and many others in the greater Omaha/Council Bluffs area. Each donor will receive a brick at the 'Saved Our Rich People In Time' marker to commemorate the wondrous humanitarian act."

Anything for the gov'nah.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 08:09 PM
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1. It's nice to see such optimism. nt
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