Replying to a post on startrek.website
Several nuclear reactors had to shut down because there was not enough water for cooling.
Replying to @jagermo@feddit.org
From euronews:
an environmental protection requirement to avoid discharging excessively hot water into rivers already warming because of the heatwave
Replying to @NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world
That twists it to “protecting nature raises your electricity bill” where it’s just that that the plant, when built, did not take into account water levels could drop this low. As if they assumed climate change wouldn’t be this influential or something.
Replying to @madnificent@lemmy.world
It’s not twisting anything, it’s verifiable fact. Water temperatures in rivers in the current heatwaves we’ve had in Europe that are more than 10 degrees celsius above mean average temperatures has meant that the temperatures in rivers and lakes are already reaching levels that are causing severe issues to the wildlife and plants within them. Dumping millions of litres of hot water from power stations into them just makes a critical situation worse.