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Your point about nuclear is interesting; do you know an approximate magnitude disadvantage of varying nuclear plant output? Presumably it's a concern of cool-d
by tbihl 9y ago
Your point about nuclear is interesting; do you know an approximate magnitude disadvantage of varying nuclear plant output?
Presumably it's a concern of cool-down thermal stresses, or perhaps flux tilting/uneven fuel burnout. Or is it something else entirely?
- biehl 9y agoFuel rod oxidation? https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/german-nuclear-damage-shows-atomic-and-renewable-power-are-unhappy-bedfellows/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/german-nuc...
- toomuchtodo 9y agoXenon poisoning. Nuclear reactors are not meant to be throttled outside of a narrow operating band, and xenon poisoning can result from attempting to throttle down to very low power output configurations. Xenon poisoning takes ~7-9 hours to abate due to the half life of xenon-135. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon-135 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon-135