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> Note that nuclear plants only contributed to about 5% of all the electrical power in Germany. And how much of that is coal? Nuclear power plants provides st
by josteink 4y ago
> Note that nuclear plants only contributed to about 5% of all the electrical power in Germany.
And how much of that is coal?
Nuclear power plants provides stable power regardless of weather, wind and climate, and serves as a necessary baseline which can be complimented by renewables.
Eliminating this without having any replacement, any stable baseline power is knowingly making the power-grid and power-supply of your nation unstable. In lack of better words, I would call it malicious.
- Mashimo 4y ago> Nuclear power plants provides stable power regardless of weather, wind and climate I know some German powerplants have to lower power output when the cooling water gets low during heat waves: https://qz.com/1348969/europes-heatwave-is-forcing-nuclear-power-plants-to-shut-down https://qz.com/1348969/europes-heatwave-is-forcing-nuclear-p... But is that still the case with newly build plants?
- JanSt 4y agoNot a single german nuclear plant was powered down to heat or low water.
- Mashimo 4y agoThanks. Corrected. Do you know if it still the case with modern reactors that they are affected by heatwaves?
- JanSt 4y agoIt‘s rather easy to build cooling towers, so only a small problem.
- PurpleRamen 4y agoWhich is not really true. German plants were also throttling down significantly in summer. They were just not completely shutting down.
- JanSt 4y agoCitation?
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoNot German power plants, French ones, where they were cheaping out on cooling towers by not building them and are using rivers for 3rd stage cooling.
- bayesian_horse 4y agoThe fraction that is generated from coal was relatively stable, even declined a little. It only very recently, like end of last year went up a little again - because of the natural gas transition. But that's still a far cry from "nuclear power is replaced by coal".