The Fort Calhoun plant, about 20 miles north of Omaha, was shut down for refueling in April. Parts of the grounds are already under two feet of water as the swollen Missouri overflows its banks. But the Omaha Public Power District, which owns the plant, has built flood walls around the reactor, transformers and the plant's electrical switchyard, the NRC said.
But apparently not around the extra spent fuel cooling pools. These are the storage pools to take the overflow from the main cooling pool inside the reactor building itself, added because Fort Calhoun, like so many other power stations, is simply allowing the spent fuel rods to pile up. According to one expert these additional storage units are outside the aqua dam and berm. With two feet of flood water racing past the spent rod storage facility that means we already have the potential for radioactive co