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The plant is reportedly at a stage 4 level of emergency, though the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), which owns and operates the plant, denies this.
"This terminology is not accurate, and is not how emergencies at nuclear power plants are classified," the OPPD says on a website created to counter rumors about the security of the Fort Calhoun plant.
Neb. nuclear plant briefly loses pumps that cool spent fuel during suspected electrical blaze - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/neb-nuclear-plant-briefly-loses-pumps-that-cool-spent-fuel-during-suspected-electrical-blaze/2011/06/08/AGFHbOMH_story.html - broken link)
A small fire briefly knocked out the cooling system for used fuel at a nuclear power plant in Nebraska, but temperatures never exceeded safe levels and power was quickly restored, federal officials said Wednesday.
The plant is reportedly at a stage 4 level of emergency, though the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), which owns and operates the plant, denies this.
"This terminology is not accurate, and is not how emergencies at nuclear power plants are classified," the OPPD says on a website created to counter rumors about the security of the Fort Calhoun plant.
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I forgot we know why. 
We're so far in the boonies we still have to depend in TV! 
