The Turkey Point nuclear plant in Homestead, Florida, where concerns about flooding have delayed relicensing.
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To reach its climate goals, the Biden administration aims to extend the lives of U.S. nuclear reactors. But a new report finds regulators have not studied whether increasingly extreme weather could threaten the safety or viability of power plants largely built in the 1970s and 1980s.
By James Dinneen
On August 10, 2020 a powerful derecho windstorm blasted the Duane Arnold nuclear power…
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