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From the Tennessee Lookout, yesterday, a tragic account of one US states horrific experience of coal-fired power generation and an awareness that nuclear is not the answer to its needs:
Tennessee’s terrible power choices – A return to coal and a boost of nuclear programs provoke skepticism
There have been scary nuclear accidents both before and since Three Mile Island. The book “We Almost Lost Detroit” details the little-known story of the 1966 partial meltdown of America’s first commercial breeder reactor in Michigan. In 1986, Chernobyl reactor No. 4 exploded in Ukraine, then part of the USSR, sending a dangerous radioactive plume over parts of Europe. Studies differ on how many people were diagnosed with cancer as a result of the fallout, but most put the number in the thousands. A 19-mile exclusionary zone soon was established around the remaining mess.
In March 2011, a massive earthquake and resulting tsunami caused hydrogen-air explosions in three Fukushima, Japan, reactors and additional damage in a fourth. At least 164,000 people were displaced from the area. Yet, for all the drama from nuclear accidents, the bigger threat may be from nuclear-fission radioactive waste, some of which remains lethal to dangerous for 100,000 years.
Radioactive nuclear waste is building up in water cooling ponds at the site of reactors. Sometimes it is put in steel casks and buried deep underground. The dangers of accidents are real, as is the possibility of theft to create a dirty bomb.
and:
Lest we forget, the Kingston facility was the site of a huge environmental catastrophe. In the early morning hours of Dec. 22, 2008, the earthen wall of a containment pond gave way, releasing 1.3 million cubic meters of coal ash sludge. Stack gas scrubbers are what coal plants use to remove some of the particulates, acidic gases, and other muck coming from the waste pouring from smokestacks. The resulting coal ash remains a serious environmental issue.
The scientific consensus is overwhelming that climate change is real, growing, and driven by human dirty power choices. The important thing about science is that it remains true, no matter how adamantly TVA chooses to deny it or ignore it. While the rest of the world is making great strides on clean, renewable choices like solar and wind power, Tennessee is looking backwards and will suffer from those poor choices.
https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/03/03/tennessees-terrible-power-choices/
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