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Drought forecast to linger, spread in Plains, West
Posted by Associated Press: Josh Funk on February 21st, 2013
Associated Press: Climate experts say the drought affecting more than half of the nation will persist in the Great Plains and West through the spring and spread over more of California, Texas and Florida.
Experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center and the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln released their latest predictions Thursday.
Currently, 56 percent of the continental U.S. is covered by some form of drought. That's an...
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Regulators: Neb. nuclear plants prepared for flood
Posted by Associated Press: Josh Funk on June 17th, 2011
Associated Press: The pictures of a Nebraska nuclear power plant were startling: Floodwaters from the swollen Missouri River had risen nearly to the reactor building, with the potential to climb even higher.
Coming only a few months after Japan's nuclear disaster, the Associated Press images alarmed many people who saw them earlier this week. But nuclear regulators and the utility that runs the Fort Calhoun reactor say there is little cause for immediate concern.
The plant, encircled by a giant rubber barrier...