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> No, nuclear plants are regularly taken offline for weather related reasons. As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, where we have 10,000 MW of nuclear (clic
by throw0101a 5y ago
> No, nuclear plants are regularly taken offline for weather related reasons.
As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, where we have 10,000 MW of nuclear (click "Supply"):
* https://ieso.ca/power-data https://ieso.ca/power-data
This does not happen here.
- coliveira 5y agoProbably because Ontario has ample access to water cooling, probably from the lakes. That's not the case for many countries in Europe.
- throw0101a 5y agoNo doubt. But it's important to differentiate "inherit" limitations of a technology versus situational ones. Plenty of EU countries have coast lines too.
- Fnoord 5y agoYeah, and they have floods, too (Re: Fukushima). I'm a proponent of nuclear fission energy (to complement solar/wind/hydro) but it has to be done safely. Hopefully in the future we don't have to rely on it (switch to nuclear fusion or something else), or solve the nuclear waste issue somehow.