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Also, I can't find any mention of the French having problems cooling down their reactors last year due to drying out rivers. Nuclear might have been an option

by Kolja 3y ago

Also, I can't find any mention of the French having problems cooling down their reactors last year due to drying out rivers. Nuclear might have been an option fifty years ago, but now it's too late to start, and we should focus on storage and renewables instead, if you ask me. [edit]: fixed a typo

seanmcdirmid 3y ago
If you are doing a huge nuclear build out, you should also focus on storage. Nuclear plants are economic to run at peak all the time, even at night when the demand isn’t there. Renewables except reservoir based hydro have the same problem (the reservoir counts as storage for hydro, and anything else if you have can run pumps back up).