{"id":111704,"date":"2020-08-21T02:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/mounting-climate-impacts-threaten-u-s-nuclear-reactors"},"modified":"2020-08-21T02:45:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T09:45:08","slug":"mounting-climate-impacts-threaten-u-s-nuclear-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/mounting-climate-impacts-threaten-u-s-nuclear-reactors","title":{"rendered":"Mounting Climate Impacts Threaten U.S. Nuclear Reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mounting-climate-impacts-threaten-u-s-nuclear-reactors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soaring temperatures, intensified flood risks and heightened water stress will threaten 57 U.S. nuclear plants over the next 20 years, forcing operators to take additional resiliency measures, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe consequences of climate change can affect every aspect of nuclear plant operations\u2014from fuel handling and power and steam generation to maintenance, safety systems and waste processing,\u201d said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moodys.com\/research\/Moodys-Nuclear-operators-face-increasing-climate-risks-but-resiliency-investments--PBC_1241730?cid=7QFRKQSZE021\" target=\"_blank\">analysis<\/a>, which was published yesterday by Moody\u2019s Investors Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring temperatures, intensified flood risks and heightened water stress will threaten 57 U.S. nuclear plants over the next 20 years, forcing operators to take additional resiliency measures, according to a new report. \u201cThe consequences of climate change can affect every aspect of nuclear plant operations\u2014from fuel handling and power and steam generation to maintenance, safety [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}