{"id":249377,"date":"2024-04-23T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/can-aging-u-s-nuclear-power-plants-withstand-more-extreme-weather\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T12:04:26","slug":"can-aging-u-s-nuclear-power-plants-withstand-more-extreme-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/can-aging-u-s-nuclear-power-plants-withstand-more-extreme-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Aging U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Withstand More Extreme Weather?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__block article__block--imageBlock article__block--align-full article__block--has-caption-or-credit\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div class=\"article__images\">\n<div class=\"article__image-wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"article__figcaption\">\n<p class=\"article__figcaption-p\"><span class=\"article__caption\">The Turkey Point nuclear plant in Homestead, Florida, where concerns about flooding have delayed relicensing.<\/span><br \/>\n          <span class=\"article__credit\">felixmizioznikov via Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- imageBlock --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__block article__block--textBlock\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><em>By <\/em><b>James Dinneen<\/b><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>On August 10, 2020 a powerful derecho windstorm blasted the Duane Arnold nuclear power&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/digest\/u.s.-nuclear-power-climate-change\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at e360.yale.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkey Point nuclear plant in Homestead, Florida, where concerns about flooding have delayed relicensing. felixmizioznikov via Shutterstock To reach its climate goals, the Biden administration aims to extend the lives of U.S. nuclear reactors. 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