This evening while I was out attending a dinner meeting, I received the following email from an anonymous party who lives in central Missouri near the Callaway nuclear plant:

"The normal steady stream of white steam out of that cooling tower turned to almost black with intermittent puffs. I'm talking to a nuclear reactor fueling guy now. He told me to listen for an alarm. If I hear an alarm, hit the road."

Several few minutes ago, I checked the RSOE EDIS website and did not find any incident that would corroborate this rumor.

Callaway Nuclear Generating Station
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callaway_Nuclear_Generating_Station

The Callaway Plant is a nuclear power plant located on a 5,228-acre (2,116 ha) site in Callaway County, Missouri, near Fulton, Missouri. It began operating on December 19, 1984. The plant, which is the state's only commercial nuclear unit, has one 1,190-megawatt Westinghouse four-loop pressurized water reactor and a General Electric turbine-generator. It is owned by the Ameren Corporation and operated by subsidiary Ameren Missouri.

The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Callaway was 10,092, an increase of 3.8 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within 50 miles (80 km) was 546,292, an increase of 15.0 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Fulton (11 miles to city center), Jefferson City (26 miles to city center), Columbia (32 miles to city center).

In 2014, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission tests found contaminated ground water nearby the site.

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What if the Fukushima nuclear fallout crisis had happened here?
National Resources Defens Council
http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/fallout/

50-mile Potential Contamination Zone

Callaway Plant (Fulton, Missouri)

1 Operating Nuclear Reactor
Pressurized Water Reactor
Operating License Issued 27 years ago
Operating at 104.5% of Original Design

Within 10-mile Evacuation Zone:

people 21,000 People (2010 Total Population)
school 6 Public Schools
hospital 0 Hospitals

Within 50-mile Potential Contamination Zone:

people 597,000 People (2010 Total Population)
school 184 Public Schools
hospital 12 Hospitals