The measure is an environmental protection requirement to avoid discharging too much hot water into rivers already warming from the heatwave. Power plants critical to the country’s electricity production use river water to cool their reactors, which heats the water that is then released back into the river.
You missed the “too much” and “already warming” parts of this paragraph. I’d rather not know anything about nuclear power than pretend like I do and then get mad when my baseless assumptions get checked.
But go on, tell me more how you care about green energy but not about heating rivers up to high degrees. Or just be honest and say you’re just here to shit on nuclear energy no matter what, and you don’t actually care about ecological impacts.
So nuclear plants are both too fragile to accept a couple degrees increase in the river water AND are polluting thermal waste (in addition to radioactive waste).
You really think this is an argument-winner?
Especially in a world where wind and solar power is plentiful and becoming more so?
You don’t know anything about nuclear power.
They need cool water to operate. The river was too hot to safely cool the plant.
They don’t give a shit about dumping hot (polluted) water downstream.
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You missed the “too much” and “already warming” parts of this paragraph. I’d rather not know anything about nuclear power than pretend like I do and then get mad when my baseless assumptions get checked.
But go on, tell me more how you care about green energy but not about heating rivers up to high degrees. Or just be honest and say you’re just here to shit on nuclear energy no matter what, and you don’t actually care about ecological impacts.
So nuclear plants are both too fragile to accept a couple degrees increase in the river water AND are polluting thermal waste (in addition to radioactive waste).
You really think this is an argument-winner?
Especially in a world where wind and solar power is plentiful and becoming more so?
No, my argument is that you got your facts wrong about what happened here and for what purpose.
If you read my comments again, you’ll note I didn’t dispute or argue any notions on how green nuclear energy really is.
You’re right. I can’t make a better argument for shutting down nuclear plants than you have.