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What happens if a nuclear power plant in your area has to be shut down for maintenance?
by _Microft 4y ago
What happens if a nuclear power plant in your area has to be shut down for maintenance?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoEver heard of wires? You can send electricity over them.
- _Microft 4y agoThese are nuclear wires, right? Because apparantely this does not work for solar and wind as I understand?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoYes.
- gweinberg 4y agoMost of the time when it's night where you are, it's also night 100 miles away.
- HPsquared 4y agoThere's usually more than one plant, and each plant usually has more than one unit (so they go on a sort of rota), and the maintenance is planned months in advance.
- Ekaros 4y agoThe nuclear have capacity factor of 90%+ meaning that on average they produce power 90% or more of all the hours in year, including maintenance. Just build multiple reactors and stagger the maintenance windows so they do not substantially overlap or match the peak demand periods on yearly scale. And "plant" can consist out of multiple independent reactors.