One major concern about nuclear power plants is the danger of flooding. Nuclear power reactors require large amounts of water to cool them. This means that they need to be located near large bodies of water; rivers, lakes or oceans. This proximity to large bodies of water means that there is a possibility of flooding, especially during heavy rains, hurricanes or tsunamis.
I have lived my whole life under the threat of nuclear war. First it was the Soviet Union and the Cold War, then the Russians and the Chinese and now the threat of rogue states such as North Korea. Fortunately, it has not happened yet but we came very close several times.
Belarus is an eastern European country that is bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. It was once a member of the Soviet Union. During the early 1980s, Belarus was working on the creation of a nuclear power plant but the1986 Chernobyl reactor accident in nearby Ukraine put those plans on hold.
I have often written about North Korea and its nuclear program. North Korea is thought to have a few nuclear bombs and it often threatens to attack South Korea and the United States over perceived threats. South Korea does not have nuclear weapons and relies on the nuclear arsenal of the United States, the conventional forces of the US and other allied nations and the U.S.
I write a lot about the Hinkley Point C project in Britain because it is the biggest and most complex planned nuclear project in the world today. It has economic, social, security, political, diplomatic and technical complications and involves three nations including one which just left the European Union.
Dominion Generation operates the North Anna Generation Station (NAGS) which is located in Louisa County in eastern Virginia. NAGS is majority owned by Dominion Virginia Power Corporation and by the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative with a much smaller share. There are two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors at the station which together produce almost two gigawatts of power.
