{"id":2972,"date":"2023-05-12T11:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T09:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2023-05-12T11:14:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T09:14:02","slug":"weatherwatch-concerns-about-the-impact-of-climate-on-nuclear-power-plants-in-the-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/12\/weatherwatch-concerns-about-the-impact-of-climate-on-nuclear-power-plants-in-the-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Weatherwatch: climate concerns for UK nuclear power stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former adviser is concerned that sea level rise and storm surges have not been taken into account by ministers when choosing sites.\u00a0<span class=\"dcr-n6w1lc\"><span>Successive governments since the 1980s have planned new generations of nuclear power stations located around the UK coast. Although the main reason for building them, according to politicians, is to provide a low-carbon form of electricity to combat the climate crisis, no thought seems to have been given to what the climate crisis could do to nuclear power plants.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span>Professor Andy Blowers, former government adviser on nuclear waste, in the Town and Country Planning Association Journal<\/span><span>\u00a0points out that the eight sites identified in 2011 as suitable for new stations are the same as those identified half a century earlier where the first generation of nuclear power plants were built. <\/span><span>The reason the sites were originally chosen was their remoteness for safety and proximity to the sea for cooling. The latest reason is that they would have a better chance of public acceptance because two generations of local people have worked in the industry. The new facilities are planned to operate for 60 years and will need another century after closure to cool enough to remove the waste.\u00a0<\/span><span>Blowers, an opponent of the government&#039;s plans, is concerned that ministers may not have considered rising sea levels, intense storms and the prospect of flooding in these areas. <em>(Paul Brown, The Guardian)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former adviser fears ministers have failed to take rising sea levels and storm surges into account when choosing sites. Successive governments have been planning new generations of nuclear power stations around the UK\u2019s coast since the 1980s. While the main reason for building them, according to politicians, is to provide a low-carbon form of electricity to combat the climate crisis, there seems to be little thought given to [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}