TN Reactor shut down and global warming effects

[Skidmore]

Nuclear Reactor Shut Down Because River Is Too Hot
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/tva_shuts_react.php

In the middle of a heat wave, the Tennessee Valley Authority has been forced to shut down a reactor at Browns Ferry. because water drawn from the Tennessee River was exceeding a 90-degree average over 24 hours, amid a blistering heat wave across the Southeast....

[Ian David]

1. Another nuclear plant had to shut-down because of unexpected algae in the water intake...

... possibly due to global warming as well.

Unexpected algae build-up shuts-down nuclear plant in Ontario, Canada
Topic started by IanDB1 on Aug-10-07 12:40 PM (1 replies)
Last modified by Pigwidgeon on Aug-10-07 12:53 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=116&topic_id=15937

[Double T]

2. Good reason to build nuclear reactors near large and deeper bodies of water.

[greenman3610]

3. but wait, the French, who have the ideal, superduperde-duper perfecto

nuclear program, had to shut
17 reactors during the deadly heatwave of 03

In the French 2003 killer heat wave, 17 reactors had to be cut back or turned off because of the rapid rise in river temperatures. In Germany and Spain, reactors were dialled back as temperatures rose.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/tva_shuts_react.php

so, let's build more on the Great Lakes!
but, ooops,...

Northeast of Chicago, American Electric Power Co. shut down one of two nuclear reactors in Bridgman, Michigan, yesterday after lake(Michigan) water, used to cool the facility, pushed readings in the containment building to 120 degrees, spokesman William Schalk said.
http://a4nr.org/library/failures/07.31.06-bloomburg

[glowing]

4. Seems to me just another reason not to build more... by the time

you build and then ruin the environment mining, and changing the ecosystem of the body of water you dumpb hotter water into... it really isn't all that green... And then there is the unfortunate by-product that is radio-active. And I dare to even suggest they will build a reactor next to some CEO's home... No, it will be some poor community that doesn't have the resources to fight the intrusion, and then has to suffer watching a higher percentage of their children suffer from cancer than the rest of the country..

Yes, lets hail the nuclear age as our greatest achievment, and be stupid enough to keep promoting as safe, green energy. Sorry... not buying it when there are other ways to achieve renewable energy. Unfortunately, its awful hard to put a meter on the sun.