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> Because of environmental limits to protect the river ecosystems So what you're saying is, nuke plants can operate in any weather if you give zero fucks about
by stephenr 3y ago
> Because of environmental limits to protect the river ecosystems
So what you're saying is, nuke plants can operate in any weather if you give zero fucks about how they affect nature..?
- spullara 3y agoYes. If you care more about warm water over killing people, carbon emissions and pollution.
- fodkodrasz 3y agoKilling wildlife would be okay? Wow we saved some carbon emission (so it can wasted somewhere else...) and saved some lives (i don't see the connection you are implying), so now we can live in a barren land with plenty energy. We have already done a lot of harm to the environment, we should try to preserve as much as possible of what is left. (And this goes for hydro especially, and somewhat for solar and wind as well, all have environmental impacts, which must be taken into account and sensible compromises need to be made).
- lupusreal 3y ago[dead]
- mpweiher 3y agoNope. This affects all thermal plants, it has nothing to do with nuclear. And as the parent pointed out, it only affects plants where you cheap out and skip building the otherwise required cooling towers. So it’s trivially solvable: build cooling towers.
- fodkodrasz 3y agoThey can, if they are designed and built for those weather conditions in mind. Cooling towers are more expensive but could work in the mentioned case.