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What critical natural resource is the plant currently on? Are you suggesting that "the shoreline of Lake Michigan" is a bad place for a nuclear plant - an indus
by timerol 3y ago
What critical natural resource is the plant currently on? Are you suggesting that "the shoreline of Lake Michigan" is a bad place for a nuclear plant - an industrial facility that uses water, and where continuous supply of water is a mitigation to the most common failure modes?
Let's hedge our bets here - by placing nuclear power plants near abundant sources of water, as the original builders of the Palisades nuclear plant did.
- p1mrx 3y agoFor new reactors, we could put an abundant source of water inside the building, like NuScale is planning. There are also high temperature reactor designs that use air cooling.
- Retric 3y agoIt is right next to the SHAWSA Water Filtration Plant which extracts water from Lake Michigan and couldn’t filter out any significant discharge. The need to place nuclear near significant sources of water doesn’t mean that every large body of water is a good location.
- maxerickson 3y agoIsn't it like 5 miles away? That's fairly close, but it also ends up involving quite a large volume of water.
- Retric 3y agoThere’s a reason nuclear exclusion zones end up so large, nuclear waste is hazardous in minute doses.
- nonethewiser 3y ago> Are you suggesting that "the shoreline of Lake Michigan" is a bad place for a nuclear plant Yes, of course.