These are Amazing and a little terrifying :)
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I was just up there a couple months ago. We stayed at a hotel. There was a really dense fog the night we arrived. The next morning I woke up and there were the cooling towers 4 miles away bigger than life.
The plant was old tech. The actual amount release was minor, but yeah, it was a serious breakdown in communication. We really could do better now, but the cost of being as safe as possible probably makes the operating cost pretty rough.
My biggest worry is accidents are still not a thing of the past. Fukushima is 12 years old, we still can't seem to work out passive failsafe in conventional fission.
My problem is that people keep building reactors on faultlines and on seashores, I get that basically all of Japan is a faultline but in the U.S there is so much land where no disasters or indeed nothing in general ever happens.
Yeah, They need unlimited water nearby which is also where people usually live :/ And the plants are all ancient, the transmit losses were bad back then. If it weren't for renewables, we might be putting them in distant areas with man-made reservoirs and multi-million volt transmission lines.
If safe enough and in a location without natural disasters it shouldn’t be a big deal to be semi near a plant. Take the Palo Verde plant in AZ. There’s no disasters that happen in the area other than heat and from what I’ve heard is they use the cleaned waste water from the cities to run the plant.