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Keeping nuclear and other coastal sites safe from climate change
journal contribution
posted on 2019-04-16, 08:43 authored by Robert WilbyRobert Wilby, Robert J. Nicholls, Rachel F. Warren, Howard S. Wheater, Derek Clarke, Richard J. DawsonThe UK’s eight proposed new nuclear power stations are all to be sited on the coast. With a total cradle-to-grave life cycle of at least 160 years, and heightened awareness of inundation risk following the failure of the Fukushima I nuclear plant in Japan this year, Britain’s nuclear developers have to show how they plan to cope with the possibility of rising sea levels, higher sea temperatures and more extreme weather events over the next two centuries. This paper describes the adaptation options for new nuclear and other major long-lived coastal developments. Despite uncertainty about climate scenarios for the 2200s, it explains how flexibility of design and safety margins can be incorporated from the outset and, when combined with routine environmental monitoring, how sites can be adaptively managed throughout their life cycles.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Published in
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil EngineeringVolume
164Issue
3Pages
129 - 136Citation
WILBY, R.L. ... et al, 2011. Keeping nuclear and other coastal sites safe from climate change. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering, 164 (3), pp.129-136.Publisher
© ICE PublishingVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2011Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1680/cien.2011.164.3.129.ISSN
0965-089XeISSN
1751-7672Publisher version
Language
- en