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Radiation threshold for evacuation

samedi 4 juillet 2020 à 02:00

It appears Connecticut proposed to raise the radiation threshold for evacuation after a nuclear power plant accident, because evacuation would be more dangerous during Covid-19 than it was before.

I won't criticize this attempt to find the safest path between two dangers. The basic idea seems valid to me. However, this should remind us that we should replace nuclear power plants with renewable energy plus storage batteries.

While renewable electric generation was expensive, the US government bought large quantities of solar cells to stimulate research to make them cheaper. That was a success. We need investment now to make large energy storage facilities cheaper.