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Sure - at scheduled, predictable times. That matters.

• ViewTrick1002 1y ago
  Except when it’s unscheduled. For months on end. See for example Oskarshamn 3 in Sweden having a 7 month long unscheduled outage this year. Ringhals 4 had an 8 month unscheduled outage during the energy crisis.
  • rkomorn 1y ago
    Tangent, but "outage" and "7 month" makes me feel like we need a new word. Maybe modern day and tech has given "outage" a much shorter connotation than what it meant in the past. 7 months? That's almost longer than the Christmas offseason.
  • natmaka 1y ago
    A machine that operates continuously is a perfect machine, and no machine is perfect. The greater the number and diversity of machines, as well as their geographical dispersion, the greater their availability. In this respect, a mix of renewables (solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, etc.) deployed on a continental scale, along with storage (batteries and V2(G|H), hydro, green hydrogen...) is unbeatable (total cost, availability, risk, etc.).