Fort Calhoun defends against flood

World Nuclear News reports due to severe Missouri flooding, Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant switched to diesel generators for a time yesterday.

The market news is quoted as saying:

The power plant has been in cold shutdown since 9 April, when it closed for a routine refuelling outage. In the meantime, storms inundated the wider area causing the Missouri river to rise – with this being exacerbated by melting snow as well as emergency releases of water from upstream dams.

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