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Re:California's Last Nuclear Power Plant to Be Shut Down by eigenvector on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @02:42AM (#11951989)
Some nuclear plants, including the largest in the world (Bruce NGS in Canada), have steam bypass systems allowing electrical output be curtailed without reducing thermal output. You just dump the thermal energy into a lake.
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Re:California's Last Nuclear Power Plant to Be Shut Down by rbanffy on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @03:56AM (#11952206)
On a plant near the ocean, any surplus power could be used for desalination, solving two problems, one of them for free.
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