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The Case for Retiring Columbia Generating Station No Nukes Northwest Columbia Generating Station The Only Nuclear Power Plant in the Northwest Boiling water reactor used to produce heat to run turbines to create electricity (same as

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The Case for Retiring Columbia Generating Station

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No Nukes Northwest

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Columbia Generating Station

 Boiling water reactor used to produce heat to run

turbines to create electricity (same as Fukushima)

 Uranium fueled  Located on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in

eastern Washington just north of Richland, Kennewick and Pasco

 Cooled by the Columbia River

The Only Nuclear Power Plant in the Northwest

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CGS

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CGS

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CGS

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CGS has generated electricity with nuclear power for 30 years…

but supplies only 3.9% of the Northwest region’s needs.

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Nuclear Power

Dirty Dangerous Expensive

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It is Dirty

Utah Uranium Mine

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Carbon Emitted per Kilowatt

*Uranium mining Total: 66.08 g/kWh

25.09 8.2 11.58 9.2 12.01

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Not the Carbon Free Energy as Advertised

 Construction  Milling, Mining and Enrichment  Heavy Water Production  Energy NW Paducah Fuel Contract

Coal (with s crubbing) Natural gas (CCCT) Nuclear Solar (PV) Solar (parabolic trough) Hydroelectric Wind (ons hore) 200 400 600 800 1000

Life Cycle GHG Emissions

(bas ed on Sovacool, Energy Policy 36 (2008) 2940– 2953) g CO2eq/kWh

Nuclear

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It is Dangerous

Design

Location

Radioactive Legacy

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Fukushima vs. CGS

“Atomic energy is a stupid way to boil water.” ~Buckminster Fuller

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Boiling Water Reactor Design at Fukushima Daiichi

Spent Fuel Pool

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Spent Fuel Pool Design

Fukushima Dai-ichi Reactor Unit 4

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Aging Reactors

Increased Failure Rate

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CGS Problems to Date

Safety issues Electrical fires Aging parts

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Location

June 14, 2011 Fort Calhoun, NB and Missouri River

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Wildfires on the Hanford Reservation

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Known Earthquakes Affecting Hanford Region

Year: 1872 Magnitude 7.4 Hanford

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Hanford

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Newly-Discovered Earthquake Potential

Hanford lies on 12 known earthquake fault lines Tied to Puget Sound subduction zone

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Hanford Reservation

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Dams

  • n the

Columbia River

Hanford

Grand Coulee

Portland

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Grand Coulee Earthquake

  • 1872 earthquake epicenter was less

than 100 miles from Grand Coulee site

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Teton Dam Collapse 1976

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Nov 17, 2013 3.2

Earthquake epicenter

CGS

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CGS Website on Seismic Bracing

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Human Acts of Destruction

A terrorist attack on CGS may have been planned by Al Qaeda in 2002

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Guarding Spent Fuel Rods at CGS

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Squirrels to Solar Flares

The electrical grid can be knocked out for hours with common incidents.

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It is Dangerous

 Radioactive Waste: High and Low

Level

HOSS: hardened on-site storage for spent fuel rods

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Hanford Nuclear Reservation

“The most polluted place in the Western Hemisphere”

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Radioactive Waste

High Level

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H.O.S.S.

HARDENED ON-SITE STORAGE for High Level Waste

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Radioactive Waste

Low Level

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It is Expensive

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Bathtub Curve

Market Price (Mid-C)

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What are the real costs?

Columbia Generating Station Operating Expenses

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Future Capital Expenditures Needed to Maintain CGS:

 Fukushima-type upgrades

including filters and vents ($24- 30 million)

 Seismic upgrades (unknown $$)  Normal end-of-life part

replacements including the steam generator and turbines ($122 m)

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“No days lost in 10 years”

 The truth is that the maintenance

time for 2011 which was scheduled to be 80 days stretched to 175 days because of the replacement of the brass condenser

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Potential Economic Consequences of Meltdown

Intense contamination of the Columbia River Displacement of large groups of residents (Richland, Kennewick, Pasco and possibly beyond to Portland/Vancouver)  Creation of hundreds of square miles of uninhabitable land Major economic impact on industries

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50 mile radius = 300,000 people

Yakima Pendleton

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Industries within 50 Miles

  • f Hanford

Salmon Fruit, vegetables and hops Wine Research & Fabrication Companies

  • Battelle NW Labs ($1 billion annual revenue)
  • Areva nuclear fuel fabrication (French company)
  • Silicon manufacturers
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Double Jeopardy:

Hanford Waste and CGS

K

15 miles

B-C Tank Farms Priest Rapids Dam

CGS

Columbia River

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Hanford Nuclear Waste

 K Basin: spent fuel from nuclear production

reactors (1968) considered one of most vulnerable sites at Hanford because of corroded pools

 WESF: largest concentration of strontium and

cesium in the world; no containment or back-up systems; located near the tank farms

 Tank Farms: enough plutonium to make 70

nuclear bombs

 CGS: above-ground holding pool (similar to

Fukushima) is already 2/3rds full of spent fuel

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B Reactor

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Path to a Nuclear-Free Energy Plan

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What is Needed to Replace the 3.9% Electricity Produced by CGS?

Conservation through efficient technology and PUD incentives ( Potential energy savings: 3 to 5%) Safer, cleaner energy production through alternatives like wind and solar

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Energy Efficiencies

Residential: LED, heat pump and power strip technologies as well as monitoring equipment Commercial and Industrial: new building systems as well as retrofits, greater use of combined heat and power (CHP) systems, new agricultural energy technologies

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Renewable Energy Sources

Reported by Washington Utilities 2012

Wind 75% Hydro Upgrades 22% Solar .02% Biomass 2% Landfill Gas .6%

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Alternative Energy Has Relative Short Start-Up Time

 Exelon’s first commercial wind farm

  • nly started operating in January
  • 2012. The company now has 44 wind

projects operating in 10 different states.

 Nuclear plant takes 10-15 years to

build.

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Other Regions Are Well On Their Way to Alternatives to Nuclear

According to Christopher Crane, the CEO of energy giant Exelon, “as wind power increases, nuclear power will decrease”

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Driving Factors to Abandon Nuclear:

Costs and Safety Concerns Are Global Concern

U.K.’s plan to build 10 new nuclear power plants just lost the backing of British utility Centrica In Japan, only two of 54 have been allowed to continue

  • peration

Germany plans to shut down all

  • f its nuclear plants by 2022
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Citizens Don’t Want It

“Nuclear power is everywhere – no thank you!” Germany 2012 50,000 Germans block railway deliveries of uranium (Nov 2010)

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What about the Costs of Decommissioning?

Much of it could be covered by

foregone capital expenditures needed for new Fukushima- driven regulatory requirements

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Nuclear power is dirty, dangerous and expensive. There are alternatives!

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What You Can Do

 Support the closing of CGS for safety and economic reasons  Support energy conservation  Contact Kitzhaber, DeFazio, Merkley and Wyden

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ShutDownCGS.wordpress.com

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http://www.energy- northwest.com/news/2011/documents/NR %2011- 11%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Facility%20 Connects%20to%20Power%20Grid%20FI NAL.pdf

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Tokyo

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Information on Fukushima Radiation

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/new s/energy/2013/08/130807-fukushima- radioactive-water-leak/ http://ww.activistpost.com/2013/10/some thing-is-killing-life-all-over.html