Fermi 2
Plant Operator: DTE Energy
Oldest reactor on site: 25 years old
Same containment system as the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan
I guess it sucks to be Detroit ... but then that goes without saying every day.
Same containment system as the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan
“I guess it sucks to be Detroit ... but then that goes without saying every day.”
Wonder what the odds are that Detroit’s plant will get hit with the largest quake in history and then have it’s backup generator washed out to sea by one of the worst Tsunamis in history? Barring that, they will probably be OK.
Is Detroit in a Tsunami zone? Then they have very little to worry about. Fukushima withstood the earthquake, 7 times greater than what it was designed to withstand. It was the tsunami that doomed it.
I’m cool with Fermi being nearby.
One that is like Fukushima and one (DB) that FE put the hole in it's Rx head.
I've worked at both in the past and I'm not worried.
We must either select Nuclear Power or Coal as our primary base load. We can't abandon both. Actually I prefer both.
Natural Gas is a fuel of convenience and should be reserved for home/commercial/institutional heating and possibly as an alternative vehicle fuel (in liquefied form). Why waste easy fuel on power generation at a stationary generator staffed by people who can deal with the more difficult fuels we have here on earth?