DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildfire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfire</span></a> risks high at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPlants</span></a></p><p>Posted on January 19, 2025 by beyondnuclearinternational</p><p>The GAO identifies a number of US nuclear power plant sites that are vulnerable to the possible outbreak of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> where they are located. </p><p>"'According to our analysis of U.S. Forest Service and NRC data, about 20 percent of nuclear power plants (16 of 75) are located in areas with a high or very high potential for wildfire,' the GAO report states. 'More specifically, more than one-third of nuclear power plants in the South (nine of 25) and West (three of eight) are located in areas with a high or very high potential for wildfire.' The GAO goes on to identify 'Of the 16 plants with high or very high potential for wildfire, 12 are operating and four are shut down.'</p><p>"To analyze exposure to the wildfire hazard potential, the GAO used 2023 data from the U.S. Forest Service’s Wildfire Hazard Potential Map. 'High / very high refers to plants in areas with high or very high wildfire hazard potential. Those nuclear power stations described by GAO as 'high / very high' exposure to wildfires and their locations are excerpted from GAO Appendix III: Nuclear Power Plant Exposure to Selected Natural Hazards.</p><p>Table 1: Potential High Exposure to 'Wildfires' at Operating Nuclear Power Plants</p><p>–AZ / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SAFER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SAFER</span></a>, one of two mobile nuclear emergency equipment supply units in the nation, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–CA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DiabloCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiabloCanyon</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–FL / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurkeyPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurkeyPoint</span></a> Units 3 & 4 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–GA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwinIHatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EdwinIHatch</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–GA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vogtle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vogtle</span></a> Units Units 1, 2, 3 & 4, nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–NC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrunswickNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrunswickNC</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–NC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/McGuireNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McGuireNC</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–NC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShearonHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShearonHarris</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH /VERY HIGH”<br>–NB / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CooperNuclearPowerStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CooperNuclearPowerStation</span></a>, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–SC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Catawba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catawba</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–SC / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HBRobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HBRobinson</span></a> Units 1 & 2 nuclear power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–WA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaNuclear</span></a> power station, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”</p><p>Table 2: Potential High Exposure to “Wildfires” at Shutdown Nuclear Power Plants</p><p>–CA / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanOnofre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanOnofre</span></a> Units 1 & 2, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–FL / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CrystalRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrystalRiver</span></a>, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–NJ / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OysterCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OysterCreek</span></a>, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”<br>–NY / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndianPoint</span></a> Units 1, 2 & 3, “HIGH / VERY HIGH”</p><p>"Wildfires can transport <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> contamination from nuclear facilities</p><p>"A historical review of wildfires that occur around nuclear facilities (research, military and commercial power) identifies that these events are also a very effective transport mechanism of radioactivity previously generated at these sites and subsequently released into the environment by accident, spills and leaks, and careless dumping. The radioactivity is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resuspended" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resuspended</span></a> by wildfires that occur years, even decades later.</p><p>"The fires carry the radioactivity on smoke particles <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/downwind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>downwind</span></a>, thus expanding the zone of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contamination</span></a> further and further with each succeeding fire. The dispersed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radionuclides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radionuclides</span></a> can have very long half-lives meaning they remain biologically hazardous in the environment for decades, centuries and longer."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/01/19/wildfire-risks-high-at-nuclear-plants/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondnuclearinternational.org</span><span class="invisible">/2025/01/19/wildfire-risks-high-at-nuclear-plants/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Downwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Downwinders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearSafety</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a></p>
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Walt Baldwin<p>"Now that Vogtle is done Georgia Power is looking for new ways to spend billions, and they decided on biomass. The request? Billions of dollars for...79 megawatts. That is not a typo."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/EnergyMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Vogtle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vogtle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/georgia-public-service-commissioners-war-power-customers-patty-durand-940xe" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/pulse/georgia-pub</span><span class="invisible">lic-service-commissioners-war-power-customers-patty-durand-940xe</span></a></p>
Henri Horn<p>Price tag on <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> ambitions in <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Sweden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sweden</span></a>:<br>400 billion SEK (38bn.USD) to build 4 or 5 new reactors totalling 4-6 GW.<br>Seems optimistic, as <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Vogtle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vogtle</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/HinkleyPointC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HinkleyPointC</span></a> only got 2 reactors for that price. But at least those projects weren't cancelled, like <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/VCSummer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VCSummer</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.energy/tags/Fennovoima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fennovoima</span></a>.</p><p>Government would offer cheap loans (300 bn.SEK) and fixed tariff 80 öre/kWh (7,7 USct/kWh) for 40 years, twice the recent market price.</p><p>Opposition calls this a waste of taxpayer money.</p><p><a href="https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/utredning-om-finansiering-for-ny-karnkraft-presenterad-beraknas-kosta-400-miljarder" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/utredni</span><span class="invisible">ng-om-finansiering-for-ny-karnkraft-presenterad-beraknas-kosta-400-miljarder</span></a></p>
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