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As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? (nationalgeographic.com)
mdsolar writes with this National Geographic story about the danger of rising sea levels to low-lying power plants across the country. According to the story: "Just east of the Homestead-Miami Speedway, off Florida's Biscayne Bay, two nuclear reactors churn out enough electricity to power nearly a million homes. The Turkey Point plant is licensed to continue doing so until at least 2032. At some point after that, if you believe the direst government projections, a good part of the low-lying site could be underwater. So could at least 13 other U.S. nuclear plants, as the world's seas continue to rise. Their vulnerability, and that of many others, raises serious questions for the future."
Sea levels have been rising for hundreds of years, ever since the end of the little ice age. Maybe they should have taken that into account when the build the structures? Did they think it was going to stop?
Yes the sealevels will rise, but they already rise with every hurricane or tides of the moon.
After Fukushima everyone knows that you need big ass dams, flood walls, protected and working backup generators etc.
If you build a 10m high floodwall or a 11m high one to also protect against global warming induced sea level rise simply doesn't really matter. If someone hasn't already built said 10-15m high flood wall, it's not global warming that is an issue but the regulatory commission in your country. A much more immediate problem too.
I'm shocked, shocked, that an alarming article about nuclear power was submitted by a guy named mdsolar.
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
mdsolar writes with another sensationalist article about how we will all die a nuclear death.
In the mean time I live in a country that is mostly below sea level, yet somehow my feet have kept dry. Is it possible that humans are capable of engineering their way around problems? What does this mean for the future of the human race? We'll explore all of these questions and more at 11.
He is a Shill's Shill.
Legendary among Solar Trolls.
They had made plans for the storage of nuclear waste, and spent billions of dollars preparing the facility. They were then told that they couldn't do that and had to stop.
Note, I am not discussing the technical merits of the facility in question, I am merely pointing out that there was a plan.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
A SJW's idea (if we understand what 'social justice' means) of having a conversation is everyone talks without some immature fuckwhippet in the corner disrupting the conversation because he doesn't like how gay/black/straight/white/Muslim/Christian some other participants are.
Translation: Everyone talks as long as they agree with me. Anyone who disagrees with me is an immature fuckwit who deserves to be silenced.
Try reading this instead:
www.climatedepot.com
www.wattsupwiththat.com
I understand that the point of the article is really just to spread FUD, but even the terrified masses must understand that "warming" sea level rise is expected to measure a double handful of inches over the next century. Normal daily wave variation is more than that; if your nuclear plant designers aren't planning for bigger variation you have much more serious problems than what's going to happen a 100 yrs from now (and which of these plants is expected to run a century anyway)?
-Styopa