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If one more reactor goes down nuclear isn’t either in your country. Germany has to run their load balancing gas plants right now to fix your nuclear fever dream

• MisterMower 4y ago
  And what is the probability of a reactor going down unexpectedly versus a weather event that causes renewable sources to stop producing? I think we learned the answer to that question last winter down in Texas.
  • pfdietz 4y ago
    You back up the renewables with hydrogen-burning combined cycle plants. A combined cycle plant costs around $1/W. A nuclear power plant costs around $10/W. Why do you want to spend so much more money than you have to, just so you can split atoms?
  • cycomanic 4y ago
    France currently runs its nuclear plants at 60% due to maintanance and heat. In the last years the amount of times they had to shut down a nuclear power plant due to to warm cooling water has increased. Given where global warming is going that will happen more and more.
  • throwawaycuriou 4y ago
    Texan politicians didn't miss a chance to blame wind power for the outages. Unfortunately, those initial lies are still circulating. The primary cause was that the pipes supplying natural gas froze. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-frozen/ https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-...
    • MisterMower 4y ago
      The frozen pipes were a problem specifically because the wind farms weren’t producing. Replace the wind farms with nuclear power and the problem goes away.