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And that's exactly why you have several nuclear reactors in a plant and several turbines, and several power lines… Please be a bit serious about what you're sa
by edhelas 5y ago
And that's exactly why you have several nuclear reactors in a plant and several turbines, and several power lines…
Please be a bit serious about what you're saying, you don't have to actually turn of a plant when you need to refuel. If any kind of plant (including hydro) need to be completely turned off for maintenance its really because you had a major design flaw.
- philipkglass 5y agoMost of the nuclear power plants that Germany built were single-reactor plants and would shut down for refueling. Multi-reactor plants will stagger shutdowns so that the plant continues to generate at reduced power. It is the same in the US. Only a few reactor designs like CANDU are capable of online refueling without interruption. Planned shutdowns for refueling are scheduled for low-demand times of the year. Here's a nuclear industry blog post explaining the practice: http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-happens-during-refueling-outage.html http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-happens-dur...
- edhelas 5y agoInteresting, thanks for the link :) !