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I imagine it would have a detrimental effect on most things, except maybe power generation behind thick concrete walls

by passwordoops 3y ago

dylan604 3y ago
so nuclear power plants are safe. got it.
- cma 3y ago
  Texas did have an unplanned reactor shutdown when it got a little cold though.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    Not winterizing the plumbing is a totally different concept than what's being discussed.
    - gpm 3y ago
      Not winterizing the plumbing and not hailerizing the equipment actually sounds pretty equivalent to me.
  - anonym29 3y ago
    With precisely zero deaths due to radiation, given the automated plant safety systems detected that the input line for the cooling water had frozen, and automatically shut down the reactor. This was nothing short of complete success from a nuclear energy safety perspective. Also, side rant: Everyone likes to shit on Texas for not winterizing for temperatures they never used to receive (including on the country-leading wind and solar installations - Texas produces more renewable energy than any other state), but Seattle seems to gets a free pass for letting people die of heat exhaustion in that 2021 heat wave because fewer than half of residential buildings there have ANY kind of A/C system, while NYC routinely gets a pass for not having been prepared for major storm surges and deadly flooding that they never used to receive. Climate change kills no matter where you're from, nobody's got a perfect setup for this new world we're living in. Also, FWIW, even including that grid outage in Texas, Texas' grid is still far more reliable from an total system uptime percentage perspective than either interconnect is. The state with the least reliable electric grid in the country is in California.
    - rocket_surgeron 3y ago
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- SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
  Station transformers are usually out in the open, because airflow for cooling is critical. Nuclear power plants have lots of very big transformers that aren't under concrete roofs.

I imagine it would have a detrimental effect on most things, except maybe power generation behind thick concrete walls

dylan604 3y ago

so nuclear power plants are safe. got it.

cma 3y ago
Texas did have an unplanned reactor shutdown when it got a little cold though.
- dylan604 3y ago
  Not winterizing the plumbing is a totally different concept than what's being discussed.
  - gpm 3y ago
    Not winterizing the plumbing and not hailerizing the equipment actually sounds pretty equivalent to me.
- anonym29 3y ago
  With precisely zero deaths due to radiation, given the automated plant safety systems detected that the input line for the cooling water had frozen, and automatically shut down the reactor. This was nothing short of complete success from a nuclear energy safety perspective. Also, side rant: Everyone likes to shit on Texas for not winterizing for temperatures they never used to receive (including on the country-leading wind and solar installations - Texas produces more renewable energy than any other state), but Seattle seems to gets a free pass for letting people die of heat exhaustion in that 2021 heat wave because fewer than half of residential buildings there have ANY kind of A/C system, while NYC routinely gets a pass for not having been prepared for major storm surges and deadly flooding that they never used to receive. Climate change kills no matter where you're from, nobody's got a perfect setup for this new world we're living in. Also, FWIW, even including that grid outage in Texas, Texas' grid is still far more reliable from an total system uptime percentage perspective than either interconnect is. The state with the least reliable electric grid in the country is in California.
  - rocket_surgeron 3y ago
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SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
Station transformers are usually out in the open, because airflow for cooling is critical. Nuclear power plants have lots of very big transformers that aren't under concrete roofs.