Comment by thelastgallon
10 hours ago
China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country: https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html
10 hours ago
China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country: https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html
> France and Switzerland shut down nuclear power plants amid scorching heatwave
Spain's reactors were fine. Regulations of cooling water discharge temperature are what are limiting the reactor output. Adding cooling towers to the power stations leads to a poorer condenser vacuum than river water, reducing electrical output by a few percent, but still a possibility. Whether it is economically worthwhile to retrofit cooling towers is another question.
and for France, we're talking about 6 reactors voluntarily paused, out of 56.