#WinterStorm Exposes Vulnerability of #NuclearPowerPlants

Shutdown of #PilgrimNuclear facility in #Massachusetts fuels critics' challenge.

By Zahra Hirji
January 29, 2015

"As reported by the Pulitzer-Prize winning online publication Inside Climate News, the 'Shutdown of Pilgrim facility in Massachusetts fuels critics' challenge.'

"The article reports: '...Tim Judson, executive director of the anti-nuclear activist group Nuclear Information and Resource Service, told InsideClimate News that during emergency shutdowns—especially during #ExtremeHeat or #ExtremeCold—grid operators 'are scrambling to find generators to make up the power.'

"...Judson is skeptical of the plan [by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to incorporate more extreme weather risks to atomic reactors,] and blamed the #NRC of 'doing everything they can to delay' industry facing up to new rules.'

"Pilgrim is a #FukushimaDaiichi twin-design and vintage, a GE BWR Mark I. One of those
'Fukushima Lessons Learned' new rules that NRC has not just delayed, but killed, is the requirement to add radiological filters to the fatally-flawed, too small, too weak containments on Mark Is (and similarly designed Mark IIs). The U.S. has 22 operating Mark Is, and 8 Mark IIs.

"For many years, Nuclear Energy Information Service in Chicago has warned 'It's the Water, Stupid!' regarding risks of extreme weather to atomic reactors. Far from nuclear power being a solution for the #ClimateCrisis, #BeyondNuclear has warned that atomic reactors cannot safely operate amdist climate chaos, as has #NIRS."

https://archive.beyondnuclear.org/safety/2015/1/29/winter-storm-exposes-vulnerability-of-nuclear-power-plants.html

Global News BC: La Niña’s kept things cooler this winter. But what happens when that cooling effect vanishes? https://globalnews.ca/news/9533650/la-ninas-cooler-winter-heat-comes-next/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #globalwarning #Winterweather #ColdWeather #ExtremeCold #extremeheat #WinterStorm #Weather #Canada #LaNina #World

'If you’re uncomfortable going to your bank machine because someone is in the heated vestibule, just think how uncomfortable it would be to sleep outside'
https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/opinion/sheldon-macleod-dont-call-the-police-on-vulnerable-people-trying-not-to-die-in-the-extreme-cold-100821145/ #Homelessness #ExtremeCold #Critical #NSPoli
Over the next 24 hours, a blast of Arctic air is expected to push our temperatures down to -24 C with a windchill close to -45 C.
This tent was spotted recently in Point Pleasant Park. The occupant is homeless and says his feet were damaged by frostbite. - Chris Lambie