Re:U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change
by imtringued on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:22AM
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No it's a simple conflict of interest. There are other nuclear power plants in unsafe locations in japan that didn't fail because either the flood wall was bigger or the emergency generators were not placed at a lower altitude than the reactor. There is no money in fixing those plants and therefore it doesn't happen.
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Re:U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change
by acidburnNSA on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @12:26AM
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Actually lots of money has been spent on upgrades that do just those things in Japan over the past few years.
https://blogs.platts.com/2016/03/29/nuclear-safety-upgrades-...
"Power companies in Japan are willing to spend billions of dollars on reactor upgrades because they expect the investments will help them reduce substantial costs spent on replacement fossil fuels. Restarting the two Takahama reactors, for example, could save about Yen 10 billion/month for Kansai Electric Power Co., a company spokesman said March 22."