And even with these reactors shut down, France still exported 5-10GW of power at the time.
So yeah let’s not propagate the anti-nuclear propaganda trying to paint the situation as “nuclear can’t handle global warming and will cause blackouts”, when in reality it’s just us having so much decarbonated electricity that we can afford to produce less as an ecological precaution.
And who the hell takes its news for oilprice.com ?
For France, this is correct. But in Hungary and Romania the problem was not that the river water was too warm, it was that it had disappeared entirely. The water levels are too low to properly cool the reactors.
Just copy-pasting at this point:
Reactors in France are shut down not because of lack of water, but as an ecological precaution because the effects of warming up rivers even more is not well known (even if it seems to have not much more impact than the heat wave in itself )
And even with these reactors shut down, France still exported 5-10GW of power at the time.
So yeah let’s not propagate the anti-nuclear propaganda trying to paint the situation as “nuclear can’t handle global warming and will cause blackouts”, when in reality it’s just us having so much decarbonated electricity that we can afford to produce less as an ecological precaution.
And who the hell takes its news for oilprice.com ?
For France, this is correct. But in Hungary and Romania the problem was not that the river water was too warm, it was that it had disappeared entirely. The water levels are too low to properly cool the reactors.
Accurate, but concerning this post specifically, it’s whataboutism
France is fine. And their power is dirt cheap in comparison. And they have competent people that plan for that kind of thing as opposed to Romania.
I take oil prices from there.
And some anti-nuclears here took that as, “warming rivers can no longer cool the reactors” too which is literally the other way around… Bruh…