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France routinely varies the output of its nuclear power plant intraday to follow the demand
by cm2187 6y ago
France routinely varies the output of its nuclear power plant intraday to follow the demand
- sephamorr 6y agoTrue, however this is a far smaller variation ("several tens of percent" [1]) and only happens slowly (~once per day). This is in contrast to gas turbine peaker plant with can ramp by 10-20%[2] of rated power per minute. [1]https://www.oecd-nea.org/nea-news/2011/29-2/nea-news-29-2-load-following-e.pdf https://www.oecd-nea.org/nea-news/2011/29-2/nea-news-29-2-lo... [2]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957650920932083 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957650920932083
- cm2187 6y agoI am not sure what you mean by one per day. There is only one cycle per day. And it’s not slow, fast enough to adjust for the daily cycle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant “Modern nuclear plants with light water reactors are designed to have maneuvering capabilities in the 30-100% range with 5%/minute slope. Nuclear power plants in France and in Germany operate in load-following mode and so participate in the primary and secondary frequency control.”