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The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station is a shut-down nuclear power plant located on 660 acres (2.7 km 2) between Fort Calhoun, and Blair, Nebraska adjacent to the Missouri River between mile markers 645.6 and 646.0. The utility has an easement for another 580 acres (2.3 km 2) which is maintained in a natural state.
Fort Calhoun on June 16, 2011, during the 2011 Missouri River Floods OPPD formerly operated the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station near Fort Calhoun . After 42 years of operation (interrupted by flooding from 2011 to 2013), the plant was shut down on October 25, 2016, and is in the process of being decommissioned. [3]
On July 13, OPPD said it had spent $26 million in June as a result of flooding affecting its power plants on the river ($20 million in work protecting its plants and $6 million in replacing lost generating capacity). OPPD has two coal-fired plants that are both larger than Fort Calhoun at Nebraska City.
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Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station - 480 MW: operated 1973-2016; Hallam Nuclear Power Facility - 75 MW: operated 1963-1964; Fossil-fuel power stations. Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration serves as a general reference. Coal. A useful map of active and retiring coal generation plants is provided by the Sierra Club.
Reverend Stephen Gutgsell, 65, of Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, was fatally stabbed after an individual broke into his church just hours before a Sunday mass (Archdiocese of Omaha)
Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) is a boiling water reactor (BWR) type nuclear power plant located on a 1,251-acre (506 ha) site near Brownville, Nebraska between Missouri River mile markers 532.9 and 532.5, on Nebraska's border with Missouri. It is the largest single-unit electrical generator in Nebraska.
The Fort Calhoun nuclear plant is now an island. Earlier last week a fire ignited at a spent fuel pool and knocked out the cooling system! If the pool or reactor cooling systems are disabled, Nebraska can expect the Fukushima scenario. After all, these ticking time bombs require constant cooling.