VioletTea@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoFrance’s nuclear fleet gives it one of the world’s lowest-carbon electricity gridsourworldindata.orgexternal-linkmessage-square108linkfedilinkarrow-up1332arrow-down134cross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
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minus-squareiturnedintoanewt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down14·2 months agoYou mean the same nuclear power plants they need to shut down every other week because the river water they use as cooling intake is too warm to actually cool them down? They’re pretty useless nowadays. https://interestingengineering.com/energy/france-nuclear-reactors-shut-record-heatwave
minus-squareoverstep8556@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·2 months agoYou should read what you link, it’s the opposite. They are actually paused to not heat the river up.
You mean the same nuclear power plants they need to shut down every other week because the river water they use as cooling intake is too warm to actually cool them down? They’re pretty useless nowadays.
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/france-nuclear-reactors-shut-record-heatwave
You should read what you link, it’s the opposite. They are actually paused to not heat the river up.