The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station is a shut-down nuclear power plant located on 660 acres between Fort Calhoun, and Blair, Nebraska adjacent to the Missouri River between mile markers 645.6
Fort Calhoun plant, seen from U.S. Highway 75
Fort Calhoun plant on June 16, 2011 during the 2011 Missouri River Floods; vital buildings were protected using water-filled perimeter "flood berms"
2011 Missouri River flood
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The 2011 flooding event on the Missouri River in the United States was triggered by record snowfall in Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming along with near-record spring rainfall in central and east
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station
…license renewed for an additional twenty years. With the renewal, the license for Fort Calhoun was extended from August 9, 2013, to August 9, 2033. The 2011 Missouri River floods surrounded the plant with flood water. The nuclear reactor had been shut down and defueled in April 2011 for scheduled refueling. A fire caused electricity…
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Report on June 18, 2011, predicting that 54,600,000 acre-feet (67.3 km3) of run off would occur above Sioux City in 2011 -- the most in the history of record keeping on the river. It tops the record flow of 49,000,000 acre-feet (60 km3) in 1997.
Oahe Dam release gates discharging floodwater at 150,000 cu ft/s (4,200 m3/s) on June 15, 2011.
Interchange of I-29 and I-680 north of Council Bluffs, Iowa, looking towards the Mormon Bridge on June 16