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Page 1 of 3 DSAR-2.1 Site and Environs Introduction Rev 0 Safety Classification:
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This section is being updated to reflect the permanent cessation of operations of Fort Calhoun Station. The contents of this section have been changed to remove any information which is not applicable during decommissioning.
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J. Reimers Fort Calhoun Station
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SITE AND ENVIRONS 2.1 Introduction This section outlines the bases for the selection of design criteria for storm, flood, and earthquake protection of the Fort Calhoun Station and provides the background data required to substantiate the proposed methods for controlling and assessing routine and accidental releases of radioactive liquids and gases to the environment. Field programs to investigate site geology, seismology, and subterranean hydrology have been completed.
The site of the power station is located at 96 degrees, 4 minutes and 39 seconds west longitude and 41 degrees, 31 minutes and 14 seconds north latitude in Washington County, Nebraska, on the southwest bank of the Missouri River at river mile 646.0, approximately 2.4 miles south-southeast of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway bridge at Blair, Nebraska. The site is 19.4 miles north-northwest of the intersection of 16th Street and Dodge Street in the city of Omaha. Meteorologically, hydrologically, geologically, and seismologically, this site is favorable for a nuclear power station.
The plant is designed, nevertheless, so that there will be no uncontrolled release of radioactive material during normal operations. Radioactive effluents, both gases and liquids, will be released in a controlled manner to ensure that they are below allowable limits.
Dames and Moore, consulting engineers in the applied earth sciences, conducted investigations in site geology, seismology, subterranean hydrology and meteorology.