Sure, why should any of that be an issue for constructing a new nuclear power plant?
This is the problem we’ve faced with nuclear power in America: every time somebody wants to build one, an army of people show up saying “Okay fine, but you can’t build it HERE”. There is no perfect site for construction. Each has its own set of challenges that need to be covered in the design. But there are very few places on Earth you can’t safely operate a properly designed nuclear power plant. And we need them badly.
The alternative is to sit back and hope solar and wind can do enough with battery storage. It probably can’t. So we need something to handle base load. Nuclear is our best option for true energy independence.
Sounds like their going to build them on the same site as the now terminated WPPSS Plants 1 & 4. Should be able to take advantage of the massive concrete foundations that were pours for the original reactor buildings.
Being located next to Plant 2, now called Columbia Generating Station, this plant will be like a 1/12 scale model based upon power output.
“Sure, why should any of that be an issue for constructing a new nuclear power plant?”
I’m sorta surprized Washington State went for it actually.
I have never completely understood why the Greens fight so hard against nukes. Nuclear power generation facilities encompass many of the things that those woke idiots scream about ie:
- small footprint
- they don’t kill birds
- they are quiet
- they produce far more power than anything else
I guess I should chalk it up to the fact that most leftists are intellectually divorced from reality.