Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.
Progress spokeswoman Julie Hahn said the Harris reactor, for example, uses 33 million gallons a day, with 17 million gallons lost to evaporation via its big cooling towers. Duke's McGuire plant draws in more than 2 billion gallons a day, but most of it is pumped back to its source.
17 million gallons of the #1 Greenhouse Gas water vapour.
And Japan had a narrow escape not too long ago, when an earthquake went off near a nuclear plant. The dangers are just too great, especially in these times of weird weather.
The Tuareg Movement of Nigeriens for Justice (MNJ) told the French news weekly Le Nouvel Observateur in an article published Thursday that the movement would step up its attacks.
"We are going to attack the uranium mines, including those of Areva, to stop factories functioning, prevent the exploitation of new quarries, and seize the cargo that is en route to the sea," MNJ leader Rhissa Ag Boula said.
"You can't exploit uranium without us," he added.
Niger, on the edge of the Sahara, is the world's third largest producer of uranium whose price has soared recently, while Areva is the company's top private employer and has operated two mines there for the past 40 years.
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