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waste_monk 7 hours ago [-]
They should figure out a way to use the heatwave to drive a turbine.
sph 6 hours ago [-]
It’s always a problem of too much entropy.
tekla 13 hours ago [-]
So yeah in the mostly probable case that reading was not involved in many of the comments, they were not shut down for a technical issue but the govt stops them from discharging the water.
All the reactor works fine and would work fine. Gov makes choice to let people hurt
sugarkjube 12 hours ago [-]
Indeed, it's mentioned in the article: "The measure is an environmental protection requirement to avoid discharging too much hot water into rivers already warming from the heatwave."
France (and to a lesser extent large parts of europe) is currently suffering from an exceptional heat wave.
notfromhere 9 hours ago [-]
You kinda don’t want to kill the whole river ecosystem. We need a functioning environment
general1465 5 hours ago [-]
Correct, and they are discharging water because they cheapen out on not building cooling towers. So the issue is actually completely fixable, but it is a question if building cooling towers is cheaper than shutting down reactors for few weeks a year.
dotcoma 15 hours ago [-]
Doesn’t happen to solar plants.
Rygian 13 hours ago [-]
Their nuclear reactor goes away every night though.
fragmede 13 hours ago [-]
Obviously the solution to that is to put mirrors in space to reflect sunlight so their collectors also work at night.
Because they need more battery storage, which Europe is rapidly building.
sudb 14 hours ago [-]
It can't come fast enough! I have a friend who works on battery storage in Europe and it sounds like an extremely busy time for them, which I'm glad for.
2snakes 13 hours ago [-]
Is it iron-air batteries?
vitally3643 12 hours ago [-]
It does when it rains, or it's too cloudy, or it snows, or the panels are dirty. Or, y'know, nighttime.
All the reactor works fine and would work fine. Gov makes choice to let people hurt
France (and to a lesser extent large parts of europe) is currently suffering from an exceptional heat wave.
But I did find something about a predicted grid overload during a sunny period requiring a solar plant to go offline:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/12/solar-fa...
"Just".
My 4th grade physics knowledge is telling me this doesn't work, because the heat energy from the water still has to go somewhere...