You need to know this. The impending nuclear disaster in Nebraska just got worse. Over the weekend - a floodwall protecting the nuclear plant from the overflowing Missouri River gave way - inundating the facility in floodwater. The plant is less than 20 miles away from Omaha - Nebraska's largest city - and is now cooling its reactors and spent fuel pools with back-up diesel powered generators.
Officials say water has not breached any of the buildings yet which are designed to withstand flooding of 1,014 feet - but currently floodwaters stand at 1,006 feet - and they're expected to rise. It was a tsunami that triggered the world's worst nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant a few months ago - and if floodwaters continue to rise and upstream dams can't hold them in Nebraska - then the same thing will happen here - and we might lose Omaha.
The rest of the world is ditching nuclear power - we're doing nothing except praying the flooding doesn't get worse.
-Thom
(What do you think it will take for the US to abandon nuclear power? Tell us here.)
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