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
Reactors in France are shut down not because of lack of water, but as an ecological precaution because the effects of warming up rivers even more is not well known (even if it seems to have not much more impact than the heat wave in itself )
And even with these reactors shut down, France still exported 5-10GW of power at the time.
So yeah let’s not propagate the anti-nuclear propaganda trying to paint the situation as “nuclear can’t handle global warming and will cause blackouts”, when in reality it’s just us having so much decarbonated electricity that we can afford to produce less as an ecological precaution.
In France, sure. In Hungary the water level actually dropped below the intake valves so they physically couldn’t pump enough water into the reactor.
But it is a consistent problem, because the hotter water is the less oxygen it holds by a lot, so fish frequently die if the water gets too hot.
Well, if we’re cherrypicking, Paks plant in Hungary has reduced to 10% capacity because the Danube fell too low to get wafer in. The plant supplied half of the country’s energy. The military has dynamited the river bed to increase flow to the plant. 145,000 cubic metres of rock is arriving from this evening in a bid to alter the river flow, and two barges may be scuttled on Friday.
Mate, I can literally walk across the Rhine where I live. Nuclear doesn’t work without cooling.
Nuclear sucks and the fossil fuel industry wants you to think it doesn’t.
Did you just strawman a fact with an anecdote and then completely get your second statement backwards?
Nuclear plants have to scale down their water output for ecological regulation reasons. Which means they have to restrict their inflow, which means they have to restrict their output capacity.
Oil industry wants you to think that nuclear there doesn’t work, not that it does. Oil and coal have been working against nuclear for an entire generation or more.
Ok, good to know. Now please relate your statement to TFA.
Also, it’s possible to have nuclear running with very little hot water discharge, you just need to build more cooling towers. Where running water exists, it isn’t seen as necessary.