Leaking nuclear plant and a big tornado

Both at Hallam, Nebraska, 68368, southwest of Lincoln.

Over the last six years, Hallam real estate prices roller-coastered, six homes in 2009 selling for a median cost of $120,000, dropping to two sales at $38,000 each in the second quarter of 2010. In 2013, 10 houses sold for a median $220,000, but in the second quarter of 2014, six houses sold had a median price of $120,000. Or, “Gee, we’re back where we started.”

http://www.city-data.com/zips/68368.html

Wikipedia has the town population at 213 in 2010; City-Data says the 2010 Zip Code population was 485, a drop of eight from the 2000 census. The 2000 census also had the town population as 93.4% white; 2010 white percentage was 95.3.

Here is a photograph of Main Street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallam,_Nebraska#/media/File:Hallam,_Nebraska_Main_from_Harrison_2.JPG

On May 22, 2004, a tornado 2.5 miles wide touched down near Hallam. NOAA says the tornado was the second-widest on record. A May 31, 2013, tornado at El Reno, Okla., surpassed the Hallam storm by .1 mile. There is no indication either town erected a sign “Second-widest tornado on record.”

Search for “hallam ne tornado” shows the storm pretty much devastated the town.

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near Hallam testifies there is a reason dogs are man’s best friend. Dogs and man were made that way, for a purpose.

“What is believed to be the largest tomb in Nebraska is located near Hallam, about 25 miles southwest of Lincoln.”

The Atomic Energy Agency in 1958 built a sodium-graphite nuclear power plant north of Hallam. The plant went on-line in 1962 and was at full power in 1963. AEC shut down the plant in 1964, after several moderator elements cracked, “allowing sodium to come in contact with the graphite.”


“There is no known environmental contamination at the site. In dismantling the reactor, its core, most of the radioactive materials and bulk sodium were removed from the site. All other potential contaminants were entombed and remain below ground. The entombment structure contains the reactor vessel, the guard vessel surrounding it and most of the internal parts of the vessel, stainless steel thimbles which contain process tubes, control rod tubes, dummy elements, and a spent neutron source. Twelve storage cells within the structure contain the damaged moderator elements.”

Monitoring will continue until 2090.

http://www.neo.ne.gov/winter97/win97_12.htm