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"Nuclear plant does what it is designed to do"
by tekla 3y ago
"Nuclear plant does what it is designed to do"
- sp332 3y agoClimate change starts hurting one of our best chances of avoiding climate change.
- dgellow 3y agoI think at this point we should stop saying „climate change starts …“. It’s already happening since a while. Climate change does indeed hurts one of our best chances of reducing C02 levels.
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- explorer83 3y agoA bit of an exaggeration. It's the middle of summer. It's not like this water source won't cool down again.
- mstipetic 3y agoEverything is fine. Carry on.
- explorer83 3y agoNot what I said.
- andsoitis 3y agoThe news here, and thus the interesting and probably unexpected thing to note, is that if we depend on natural sources for water to cool nuclear plants and due to climate change the temperature of waters rise, we need to adjust where we build plants and/or spend extra energy to cool down the water to in turn cool down the plants.
- yread 3y agoIts not just that water temperature rises but that there is less of it (ie drought) so the constant amount of constantly hot water from the plant gets mixed with less water left in the river increasing its temperature more
- pajko 3y agoYep. Also this shows that the Danube is not able to cool the power plant, yet the guys are building Paks II...
- unglaublich 3y agoIt's perfectly able to do so, but not at full power without heating up the river so much it would hurt organisms in there. Even then, it _could_ have been designed to do so - through more flow - but it's just a design parameter that was optimized in a cost/performance trade-off.
- spywaregorilla 3y agoCost performance tradeoffs aren't some minor thing. If you cannot produce energy at a cost effective level, you might as well not produce it at all. The theoretical capabilities of the thing are not relevant if the economics of them don't work.
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