Perdue, Cagle, Big Business, and the drought.

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If we have a severe drought, nuclear power plants maybe forced to shut down!

Already, the drought affecting metro Atlanta and North Georgia has forced a shut down in Alabama this summer.

"Water is the nuclear industry's Achilles' heel," said Jim Warren, executive director of N.C. Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, an environmental group critical of nuclear power. "You need a lot of water to operate nuclear plants." He added: "This is becoming a crisis."

An Associated Press analysis of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors found that 24 are in areas experiencing the most severe levels of drought. All but two are built on the shores of lakes and rivers and rely on submerged intake pipes to draw billions of gallons of water for use in cooling and condensing steam after it has turned the plants' turbines.

Extending or lowering the intake pipes is not as simple at it sounds and wouldn't necessarily solve the problem. The pipes are usually made of concrete, can be up to 18 feet in diameter and can extend up to a mile. Modifications to the pipes and pump systems, and their required backups, can cost millions and take several months. If the changes are extensive, they require an NRC review that itself can take months or longer.

Doesn't sound like fun, building more nuclear reactors with water intake pipes 18 feet in diameter.

We should be wondering if the missing water from Lake Lanier went to a utility company to cool a nuclear reactor.

That would be the Joesph M. Farley Nuclear Plant on the Chattahoochee River just east of Dothan, Alabama.

In reality, our water is being used to make a specific corporation wealthy.

Cagle knows it.
Sonny Perdue knows it.
And they lie about the water being used for 'mussels.'

Both Cagle and Perdue take campaign contributions from ... power companies, don't they?