Why NUKE PLANTS are Still Dangerous and Unreliable
| By Dennis Spisak - Jul 15th, 2009 at 7:26 am EDT |
Why NUKE PLANTS are Still Dangerous and Unreliable
Heat Wave Forces French to Shut Down Nuclear Plants and Import U.K. Electricity. By Robin Pagnamenta, London Times, July 3, 2009. "France is being forced to import electricity from Britain to cope with a summer heatwave that has helped to put a third of its nuclear power stations out of action... Fourteen of France's 19 nuclear power stations are located inland and use river water rather than seawater for cooling. When water temperatures rise, EDF is forced to shut down the reactors to prevent their casings from exceeding 50C."
Plant Shutdown Reignites German Nuclear Controversy. By Geir Moulson, AP, July 6, 2009. "Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-left rivals made it clear Monday they will make nuclear power a major issue in the September national election, following a weekend shutdown at a troubled German nuclear plant. The plant at Kruemmel, near Hamburg, shut down automatically on Saturday following a short-circuit in a transformer. The plant had reopened only last month after a two-year closure that followed a fire in another transformer in 2007. That offered the center-left Social Democrats -- currently the conservative Merkel's partners in a 'grand coalition' of Germany's biggest parties that both hope to end in Sept. 27 elections -- a chance to highlight a key policy difference. The Social Democrats have fiercely defended the decision by Germany's previous government, which they led, to phase out Germany's 17 nuclear power plants by 2021. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union opposes abandoning nuclear energy and wants to extend some reactors' lives."
Two more reasons why Nuke Plants are not a safe power alternative in the USA!
Plug into the sun with solar or go wind power!
Dennis Spisak
Mahoning Valley Green Party
Ohio Green Party
www.ohiogreens.org
www.votespisak.org/thinkgreen/
Heat Wave Forces French to Shut Down Nuclear Plants and Import U.K. Electricity. By Robin Pagnamenta, London Times, July 3, 2009. "France is being forced to import electricity from Britain to cope with a summer heatwave that has helped to put a third of its nuclear power stations out of action... Fourteen of France's 19 nuclear power stations are located inland and use river water rather than seawater for cooling. When water temperatures rise, EDF is forced to shut down the reactors to prevent their casings from exceeding 50C."
Plant Shutdown Reignites German Nuclear Controversy. By Geir Moulson, AP, July 6, 2009. "Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-left rivals made it clear Monday they will make nuclear power a major issue in the September national election, following a weekend shutdown at a troubled German nuclear plant. The plant at Kruemmel, near Hamburg, shut down automatically on Saturday following a short-circuit in a transformer. The plant had reopened only last month after a two-year closure that followed a fire in another transformer in 2007. That offered the center-left Social Democrats -- currently the conservative Merkel's partners in a 'grand coalition' of Germany's biggest parties that both hope to end in Sept. 27 elections -- a chance to highlight a key policy difference. The Social Democrats have fiercely defended the decision by Germany's previous government, which they led, to phase out Germany's 17 nuclear power plants by 2021. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union opposes abandoning nuclear energy and wants to extend some reactors' lives."
Two more reasons why Nuke Plants are not a safe power alternative in the USA!
Plug into the sun with solar or go wind power!
Dennis Spisak
Mahoning Valley Green Party
Ohio Green Party
www.ohiogreens.org
www.votespisak.org/thinkgreen/
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