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> last year for some time >80% of the power generation was down in France due to maintenance Oh, so low? I heard it was 102%, and we had to activate the hamste
by pyrale 3y ago
> last year for some time >80% of the power generation was down in France due to maintenance
Oh, so low? I heard it was 102%, and we had to activate the hamster wheels in order to make up for the deficit?
Hint: Nuclear isn't even 80% of France's nuclear production when every reactor is up.
- cycomanic 3y agoYes and for some time 100% of France's nuclear reactors were down, either due to maintenance or heat.
- pyrale 3y agoThis simply never happened. It's a matter of public record [1], it shouldn't be hard to check your numbers and see that they're wrong... [1]: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/122922-french-nuclear-output-to-start-2023-at-record-low-amid-long-term-outages-fuel-savings-stops https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...
- cycomanic 3y agoThat link doesn't contradict what I said? I said in summer last year (almost?, at the time I saw 2 different sources, one French said all, one German said almost all) all nuclear power plants were offline. Macron even went on TV arguing that they pulled forward maintenance to "prepare for the winter to support the German's lack of Gas" (seems not to happened according to your link, they were on record low output at the turn of the year).
- pyrale 3y agoThe link shows ~25 reactors were up in the summer at the low point, out of 58. If you want another link: [2] states that about half of the reactors were down. I don't know what news sites you use, but "almost all" or "all" reactors being down is simply false news. [2]: https://www.grs.de/en/news/situation-nuclear-power-plants-france-how-has-situation-evolved-our-neighbouring-country https://www.grs.de/en/news/situation-nuclear-power-plants-fr...