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Visual inspection of massive damage at North Anna nuclear plant (look closely)

ByRod Adams

CBS TV 6, one of the television stations closest to the North Anna nuclear power station was allowed to take a tour to see the massive damage caused by one of the largest earthquakes that has ever occurred in the US east of the Mississippi River. Caution – the video you are about to see has some very disturbing images and might make you rethink your position on nuclear energy.

 

I hope by now that you have watched the video and realized that my words above are dripping with irony. The damaged areas that you saw could most likely be covered by a dinner plate. Please remember that replacing the electricity that the North Anna power station could be producing while the NRC dithers over granting permission to restart is costing Dominion an extra $2 million dollars per day.

It is also resulting in about $2 million per day in additional sales for the natural gas industry.

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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