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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
It's only stable if the water table doesn't drop too low. Good thing there aren't any nuclear power stations in the Colorado river, eh?
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The NRC probabilistic risk assessment of the Diablo Canyon plant, including the seismic risk, estimated the possibility of core damage at 1 chance in 7.6 million reactor years. The D.C. reactors were commissioned around 1986 and have been producing approximately 18 million mWh of carbon-free electricity annually!
To your other point, power plants aren't build in rivers. There aren't presently any nuclear power plants in Colorado but there are plenty of places to build 4th generation nuclear power plants.
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https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1627/ML16277A340.pdf