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Nuclear sites worldwide exposed to projected sea level rise risk as of 2021, by name and location (in meters of water level rise)

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Release date

September 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2021

Special properties

based on the SSP3 scenario from near to long term*; red bars indicate that nuclear sites are exposed to high winds risk as well, beside sea level rise risk.

Supplementary notes

* SSP3 is the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway number three (of five), a socioeconomic future scenario in which the climate policies (for instance the Paris Agreement) to keep the global temperature increase well below 2°C are not fulfilled, leading to global warming of 4°C and regional level conflicts. The IPCC Representative Concentration Pathways combines SSPs and climate change studies to assess the dependence of the future climate on current policies.

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According to a climate scenario realized in 2021, around ** nuclear sites worldwide would be exposed to a sea level rise between ** and ** centimeters, if the climate policies tackling global warming are not followed. The nuclear sites at risk of the highest sea level rise are located in the United States (U.S.) and they represent almost ** percent of the total ranked nuclear sites. Over ** percent of the endangered nuclear sites are located in Japan, at a total of ** nuclear plants. This figure indicates that more than one in three nuclear power reactors present in this country would be at risk.
Many of the listed nuclear sites (shown in red) will be at risk of high winds as well, creating the conditions for extreme precipitation events concurrent to floods.