The Cooper Nuclear Plant Is Now A Economic Threat To The USA

Update April 9

Another bomb cyclone heading to the upper Midwest? Is Cooper a goner? Is this the new normal? 

Reposted from 3/21
update

Risk of flooding remains high into the spring in Nebraska, Iowa due to a mix of threats

Conditions continue to indicate Nebraska has not seen the last of flooding, starting with forecasts for this weekend calling for up to an inch of rain Friday into Saturday across portions of Nebraska.

***Don't forget, and damage viable nuclear plants throughout the world.  

The characteristics of the Missouri River have change since the Cooper plant has been built due to climate change. The plant now is not designed to be safe with a river system running out of control for the foreseeable future.

The Cooper plant now is a ticking nuclear time bomb out to destroy the nuclear industry and horribly damage out economy. The scenario I worry is if the plant melts down in just the right political environment. The meltdown could be so politically ugly it would cause us to shutdown all the nuclear plants in the USA in a extremely short period of time. We would quickly lose 20% of our electricity. The prolonged power shortages and price spikes and elevated cost of electricity would throw us into a depression. This is not a far fetched scenario, Japan shutdown all their nuclear plants in the aftermath of Fukushima. It would take us a decade or more to replace 20% of our electricity.

The Fight to Tame a Swelling River With Dams Outmatched by Climate Change

Along the Missouri, John Remus controls a network of dams that dictates the fate of millions. ‘It was not designed to handle this.’

By Tyler J. Kelley

March 21, 2019

There were no good choices for John Remus, yet he had to choose.

Should he try to hold back the surging Missouri River but risk destroying a major dam, potentially releasing a 45-foot wall of water? Or should he relieve the pressure by opening the spillway, purposefully adding to the flooding of towns, homes and farmland for hundreds of miles.

Mr. Remus controls an extraordinary machine — the dams built decades ago to tame a river system that drains parts of 10 states and two Canadian provinces. But it was designed for a different era, a time before climate change and the extreme weather it can bring.

“It’s human nature to think we are masters of our environment, the lords of creation,” said Mr. Remus, who works for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. But there are limits, he said. And the storm last week that caused him so much trouble was beyond what his network of dams can control.

“It was not designed to handle this,” he said.

The storm, the “bomb cyclone” that struck the upper Midwest, dumped its rain onto frozen soil, which acted less like dirt and more like concrete. Instead of being absorbed, water from the rain and melted snow raced straight into the Missouri River and its tributaries…