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Re:France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5% by reacweb on Monday August 13, 2018 @10:18AM (#17750252)
I keep earing that, but it is not totally clear for me. It seems the start and the stop of a nuclear plant takes a day if we want to be safe and efficient. A fast shutdown in a couple of seconds may cause difficulties to restart afterward. Maybe we could study procedures for safe quick start/stop even if the efficiency is not perfect.
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Re:France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5% by rhino369 on Monday August 13, 2018 @11:40AM (#17750898)
If you had enough nuclear capacity to cover for when wind/solar aren’t outputting anything, then you don’t need wind/solar. You’d just use your nuke plant 100%.
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