{"id":20050,"date":"2018-04-29T10:28:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=20050"},"modified":"2018-04-29T10:28:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T14:28:17","slug":"nuke-downtimes-decade-and-year-2018-04-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/nuke-downtimes-decade-and-year-2018-04-29.html","title":{"rendered":"Nuke downtimes, decade and year 2018-04-29"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nHere’s graphic evidence of the unreliability of nuclear power.\r\n

Recent 12 months, Southern Nuclear<\/a><\/H4>\r\n

\r\nSee for yourself on\r\n\r\nLAKE Nuclear Power Status<\/a>,\r\nwhich daily draws graphs from Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) data.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Recent<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nThese examples are for reactors run by Southern Nuclear,\r\nwhich is the nuclear unit of Southern Company, which has only six units operational.\r\nAbout every other month\r\none or another of them is down.\r\n\r\n

\r\n\r\nFarley 1<\/a>,\r\non the Chattachoochee River east of Dothan, Alabama,\r\nabout 120 miles west of Lowndes County, Georgia,\r\nis still down today, after a month of downtime.\r\n

Recent Decade, Southern Nuclear<\/a><\/H4>\r\n

\r\nThe recent downtimes are not unusual,\r\nas you can see in this graph of a decade of data.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Recent<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Recent Year, Hatch 1<\/a><\/H4>\r\n

\r\n\r\nHatch 1<\/a> is one of the two reactors closest to Lowndes County, Georgia,\r\nabout 100 miles northeast on the Altamaha River near Baxley,\r\nnext to Hatch 2.\r\nHatch 1 was down for a month in February 2018, with lots of blips in other months.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Recent<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Recent Ten Years, Hatch 1<\/a><\/H4>\r\n

\r\nA decade of data shows Hatch 1 is usually down about a month a year,\r\nwith many other episodes in between.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Recent<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

U.S. Operating Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors, Map<\/a><\/H4>\r\n

\r\nThe number of units peaked a bit above 100 and is going down rapidly\r\nto about what NRC shows on its latest map<\/a>.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"U.S.<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

Power Reactors Decommissioning, Map<\/a><\/H4>\r\n

\r\nThat’s quite a few plants decommissioning<\/a>.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"Power<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

New Reactor Applications, Map<\/a><\/H4>\r\n

\r\nThere are fewer sites with applications for new nuclear units<\/a>\r\nthan units decommissioning.\r\nThis NRC map also does not show that\r\nPlant Levy in Florida is thoroughly dead,\r\nand V.C. Summer in South Caroline is dead unless somebody like NextEra buys it.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"New<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nNuclear power is a dead industry, because existing nukes are too expensive to run,\r\nand new nukes are far too expensive to build.\r\nAll of Southern Company’s\r\nand NextEra’s nuclear men can not revive it.\r\n

\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n

Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here’s graphic evidence of the unreliability of nuclear power. Recent 12 months, Southern Nuclear See for yourself on LAKE Nuclear Power Status, which daily draws graphs from Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) data. These examples are for reactors run by Southern Nuclear, which is the nuclear unit of Southern Company, which has only six units operational. […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[10271,272,8701,744,8702,12,7,8737,2120,9794,6,4480],"class_list":["post-20050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear","tag-alma","tag-ga","tag-georgia","tag-hatch","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-nuclear","tag-reliability","tag-southern-nuclear","tag-valdosta","tag-vidalia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-5do","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20063,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20050\/revisions\/20063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}