if you looked at what is going on, you would see that bulk of the missing energy in hungarian grid is supplied from czech and slovak grids, where half or so energy is supplied from nuclear powerplants that don't have such problems https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/CZ/72h/hourly
not to mention the french, who put bunch of their reactors near shore and won't ever have problems with cooling, and so export 10-15GW every day
This is to avoid overheating river, seashore powerplants or those that rely on evaporative cooling towers don't have this problem. Also, it's as good time for maintenance as any other, and they still exported loads of electricity the entire time
You make this sound like they do it for laughs and giggles and it's optional, not because increasing the temperature in already hot bodies of water even more literally kills wildlife.
The thing is that this is a really desperate measure. The danube is one of Europes biggest rivers. That nuclear power plant was build with water inlets. That plant has been there for ages as every nuclear plant in Europe is old as fuck. That rock has been there also a long time. Having to blast it to help a little bit in order to save the reactor producing so much energy that the other plants in the country can't take over, is desperate as fuck
Yeah, they're responding to a (not-so-) natural disaster. Of course infrastructure built half a century ago under wildly different conditions is at risk.
Even if solar panels get buried under a mudslide, you can just build new solar panels very quickly. If that would happen to s nuclear plant, you would need to wsit 10+years for a new one.
Yeah, right. Those totally predictable mud slides that happen every summer and are expected to increase in frequency and duration with climate change... 🤣
Well, most of the time you would be right indeed. Uranium fuel rods are solid. But in a molten-salt reactor the fissile material is actually dissolved in molten salt, so it is a solution!
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Pip@feddit.org · 16 pts · 7h
Wow, all that super stable, super reliable base load energy is just mindblowing!! Let's build more nuclear power plants!
plyth@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1h
If we had done that early on we wouldn't have global warming and there wouldn't be a cool water shortage.
fullsquare@awful.systems · -5 pts · 7h
if you looked at what is going on, you would see that bulk of the missing energy in hungarian grid is supplied from czech and slovak grids, where half or so energy is supplied from nuclear powerplants that don't have such problems https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/CZ/72h/hourly
not to mention the french, who put bunch of their reactors near shore and won't ever have problems with cooling, and so export 10-15GW every day
woelkchen@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 7h
About that: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260712-france-temporarily-shuts-down-three-nuclear-reactors-over-heatwave
This happens literally every hot summer.
fullsquare@awful.systems · 0 pts · 6h
This is to avoid overheating river, seashore powerplants or those that rely on evaporative cooling towers don't have this problem. Also, it's as good time for maintenance as any other, and they still exported loads of electricity the entire time
Ooops@feddit.org · 2 pts · 3h
You make this sound like they do it for laughs and giggles and it's optional, not because increasing the temperature in already hot bodies of water even more literally kills wildlife.
fullsquare@awful.systems · 2 pts · 3h
Plenty of thermal powerplants use cooling towers and don't have this problem, this is not a limitation of NPP
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · -6 pts · 7h
"Look at all that renewable green solar generation! Sure doesn't work so well when it's buried under a mudslide lol"
That's what you sound like
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org · 18 pts · 7h
The thing is that this is a really desperate measure. The danube is one of Europes biggest rivers. That nuclear power plant was build with water inlets. That plant has been there for ages as every nuclear plant in Europe is old as fuck. That rock has been there also a long time. Having to blast it to help a little bit in order to save the reactor producing so much energy that the other plants in the country can't take over, is desperate as fuck
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1h
Yeah, they're responding to a (not-so-) natural disaster. Of course infrastructure built half a century ago under wildly different conditions is at risk.
Sniatch@feddit.org · 7 pts · 4h
Even if solar panels get buried under a mudslide, you can just build new solar panels very quickly. If that would happen to s nuclear plant, you would need to wsit 10+years for a new one.
Ooops@feddit.org · 2 pts · 3h
Yeah, right. Those totally predictable mud slides that happen every summer and are expected to increase in frequency and duration with climate change... 🤣
zloubida@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 6h
Nuclear is not a solution, evidence 836382.
Photonic@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 5h
Well, most of the time you would be right indeed. Uranium fuel rods are solid. But in a molten-salt reactor the fissile material is actually dissolved in molten salt, so it is a solution!
The more you know!
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 7h
Begun, the water wars have 😔
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 8h
Missed opportunity to use a nuke for peak Fallout.
brainzzz@piefed.world · 6 pts · 3h
Am I the only moron who thought they meant music?
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 7h
Call it the Blew(up) Danube?
Meanwhile I want to nuke one measly hurricane and everyone looses their minds