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Source - The colors of the grids represent CO2 emissions

The title is a reference to the 2021 Texas power crisis

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We have a nuclear reactor in Puget Sound. It doesn't provide much of our power though for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

At least according to this it's ~8% of the state's electrical capacity all by it's lonesome which doesn't seem too bad. By the stats on it's own wiki it's pretty active.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I've heard there's another reactor in the Willapa Hills that was constructed but never activated. Like some ghost story it still sits, unused, to this day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Bangor got nuclear sub fleet, but the only functional reactor is the Hanford site in Richmond on the Columbia, as far as I know. Satsop site was cancelled with all the other reactors in Richmond.