Nebraska Nuclear Threat: As Predictable as Fukushima

Nuclear accidents - like oil spills and financial meltdowns - happen because big companies push to make more money by cutting every safety measure in the books. The accident at Fukushima was predictable. Likewise, the potential problem at the Fort Calhoun reactor in Nebraska was predictable. (For background, see this and this.) As Ketv reported in March: Fort Calhoun's nuclear power plant is one of three reactors across the country that federal regulators said they are most concerned about. *** Last year, federal regulators questioned the station's flood protection protocol. NRC officials said they felt the Omaha Public Power District should do more than sandbagging in the event of major flooding along the Missouri river.