[ RadSafe ] [Bulk] Ft. Calhoun

[Jeff Terry]

Excepting the fact that they don't need to be there. 

Jeff


On Jun 27, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Thompson, Dewey L wrote:

> I don't know the sea level or where the dry casks are.  They are outside "the berm", and I've seen some reports that at lease some of the casks are now in standing water.  
> 
> The dry cask issue is one of the buzz topics on the internet; some in the anti crowd are honking about it.  
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> Personally, the LAST thing I would be concerned about around flooding at a nuclear plant is the dry casks.  
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> Dewey
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Marvin Resnikoff
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> Where are the dry storage casks located?  Has flooding blocked the cooling inlets?
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> --- On Mon, 6/27/11, Thompson, Dewey L <DThompson3 at ameren.com> wrote:
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> From: Thompson, Dewey L <DThompson3 at ameren.com>
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] [Bulk]  Ft. Calhoun
> To: "The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List" <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
> Date: Monday, June 27, 2011, 11:10 AM
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> Actually, I forgot to mention, the head was never reinstalled post refueling.  They are in a static condition with the refuel pool filled.  That would be several hundred thousand gallons of cooling water.  
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> They would have hours upon hours before boil time.  
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> Dewey
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Simpson
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 9:00 AM
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> Question to the list: with the current status of the reactor at Ft. 
> Calhoun, , what would be the consequences of a total loss of power for 
> coolant circulation, etc?
> 
> -Tom
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> On 06/27/2011 09:39 AM, Jeff Terry wrote:
>> Been collapses at Ft. Calhoun.
>> http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=13932406
>> 
>> NRC activates incident response center. Flood at 1006 ft, design basis is 1014 ft. River expected to crest at 1008 ft.
>> 
>> http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2011/11-031.iv.pdf
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>> Jeff
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