{"id":368779,"date":"2020-08-20T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368779"},"modified":"2020-08-20T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:24:06","slug":"nuclear-plants-face-more-heat-risk-than-theyre-prepared-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nuclear-plants-face-more-heat-risk-than-theyre-prepared-to-handle\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear plants face more heat risk than they\u2019re prepared to handle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change\u2014particularly intense heat\u2014is advancing so rapidly that it poses physical as well as credit risks to America\u2019s aging nuclear fleet, a new report from Moody\u2019s Investors Service finds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur plants are fairly hardened to severe weather,&#8221; said David Kamran, a projects and infrastructure analyst at Moody\u2019s and the lead author of the report. \u201cBut climate change is moving quickly.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s nuclear power plants produce roughly 20% of the country\u2019s electricity and represent more than half of all of its carbon-free power generation. After the earthquake and tsunami that caused a meltdown at Japan\u2019s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked domestic plants to conduct their own assessments of risks from climate change and other natural hazards. A 2019 Bloomberg review of correspondence between the commission and owners of 60 plants concerning those assessments found that 54 of their facilities weren\u2019t designed to handle the flood risk they now face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change\u2014particularly intense heat\u2014is advancing so rapidly that it poses physical as well as credit risks to America\u2019s aging nuclear fleet, a new report from Moody\u2019s Investors Service finds. \u201cOur plants are fairly hardened to severe weather,&#8221; said David Kamran, a projects and infrastructure analyst at Moody\u2019s and the lead author of the report. \u201cBut climate change is moving quickly.&#8221; America\u2019s nuclear power plants produce roughly 20% of the country\u2019s electricity and represent more than half of all of its carbon-free power generation. After the earthquake and tsunami that caused a meltdown at Japan\u2019s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}