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Adventure Does Not WaitThe Baltic’s moody March embrace – where steel-gray waves meet golden shores stretching toward infinity. This empty beach holds the promise of solitude that busy summer days can never offer. 🌊 Those wooden groynes stand like ancient sentinels, fighting the relentless tide while pine forests watch silently from above. Spring on Poland’s northern coast has a raw beauty that fair-weather travelers miss entirely. Discover the perfect gear for your off-season coastal trek at <a href="https://adventuredoesnotwait.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://adventuredoesnotwait.com</a> 🧭 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/BalticCoast?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BalticCoast</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/EmptyBeaches?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EmptyBeaches</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PolandShores?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PolandShores</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SpringTide?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringTide</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CoastalHike?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoastalHike</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/MoodySeascape?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MoodySeascape</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/BeachWanderer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BeachWanderer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/MarchEscape?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarchEscape</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/OffSeasonTravel?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OffSeasonTravel</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NorthernShores?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthernShores</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SolitudeSeeker?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolitudeSeeker</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/WavesAndSand?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WavesAndSand</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PixelfedCommunity?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PixelfedCommunity</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/AdventureDoesNotWait?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdventureDoesNotWait</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Photography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a>

DoomsdaysCWAre <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Coastal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coastal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> Power Plants Ready for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeaLevelRise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SeaLevelRise</a>?As shorelines creep inland and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/storms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#storms</a> worsen, nuclear reactors around the world face new challenges.by John Vidal, August 21, 2018"The outer defensive wall of what is expected to be the world’s most expensive nuclear power station is taking shape on the shoreline of the choppy gray waters of the Bristol Channel in western England."By the time the US $25-billion <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HinkleyPointC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HinkleyPointC</a> nuclear station is finished, possibly in 2028, the concrete seawall will be 12.5 meters high, 900 meters long, and durable enough, the UK regulator and French engineers say, to withstand the strongest storm surge, the greatest tsunami, and the highest sea-level rise."But will it? Independent nuclear consultant <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeteRoche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeteRoche</a>, a former adviser to the UK government and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenpeace</a>, points out that the tidal range along this stretch of coast is one of the highest in the world, and that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/erosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#erosion</a> is heavy. Indeed, observers reported serious flooding on the site in 1981 when an earlier nuclear power station had to be shut down for a week, following a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpringTide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpringTide</a> and a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StormSurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StormSurge</a>. However well built, says Roche, the new seawall does not adequately take into account <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sealevel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sealevel</a> rise due to climate change."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Flooding</a> can be catastrophic to a nuclear power plant because it can knock out its electrical systems, disabling its cooling mechanisms and leading to overheating and possible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/meltdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meltdown</a> and a dangerous release of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioactivity</a>. Flooding at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FukushimaDaiichi</a> plant in Japan as a result of the March 2011 tsunami caused severe damage to several of the plant’s reactors and only narrowly avoided a catastrophic release of radioactivity that could have forced the evacuation of 50 million people."In the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a>, where nine nuclear plants are within three kilometers of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ocean</a> and four reactors have been identified by Stanford academics as vulnerable to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StormSurges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StormSurges</a> and sea-level rise, flooding is common, says David Lochbaum, a former nuclear engineer and director of the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned Scientists (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCS</a>)."Lochbaum says over 20 flooding incidents have been recorded at US nuclear plants since the early 1980s. “The most likely [cause of flooding] is the increasing frequency of extreme events,' he says." <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExtremeWeather</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPlants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HinkleyPoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HinkleyPoint</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoastalFlooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoastalFlooding</a> Full article: <a href="https://hakaimagazine.com/features/are-coastal-nuclear-power-plants-ready-for-sea-level-rise/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://hakaimagazine.com/features/are-coastal-nuclear-power-plants-ready-for-sea-level-rise/</a>

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