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Re:Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant by timerol on Monday April 17, 2023 @08:43PM (#35608592)
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.

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Re:Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant by Retric on Monday April 17, 2023 @09:06PM (#35608736)
It 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.

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Re:Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant by maxerickson on Monday April 17, 2023 @10:03PM (#35609120)
Isn't it like 5 miles away?

That's fairly close, but it also ends up involving quite a large volume of water.

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Re:Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant by Retric on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:51AM (#35611915)
There’s a reason nuclear exclusion zones end up so large, nuclear waste is hazardous in minute doses.
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Re:Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant by p1mrx on Monday April 17, 2023 @08:53PM (#35608649)
For 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.

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Re:Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant by nonethewiser on Monday April 17, 2023 @09:09PM (#35608752)
> Are you suggesting that "the shoreline of Lake Michigan" is a bad place for a nuclear plant

Yes, of course.

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