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Via AP/Yahoo News, Omaha World-Herald, OPPD

OMAHA, Neb. – A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were monitoring the situation and there was no danger.

The federal commission had inspectors at the plant 20 miles north of Omaha when the 2,000-foot berm collapsed about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Water surrounded the auxiliary and containment buildings at the plant, it said in a statement.

On Sunday, floodwater surrounded the nuclear plant's main electrical transformers, and power was transferred to emergency diesel generators. OPPD officials said the transfer was precautionary because of water leaking around the concrete berm surrounding the main transformers. Plant operators later reconnected to off-site power once all safety checks had been completed.


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Flood berm collapses at Nebraska nuclear plant, AP / Yahoo News, June 26, 2011
OPPD Flood and Outage Information weblog has no update as of 2p 6/26
OPPD Newsroom Update 6/26
Flood wall fails at Fort Calhoun, Omaha World-Herald