Re:Hot weather cuts French, German nuclear power output
by xorfish on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:10AM
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You can always just evaporate the water, reducing the amount of water to around 0.5 m^3/s per GWe.
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Re:Hot weather cuts French, German nuclear power output
by masklinn on Friday July 26, 2019 @07:44AM
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That's what's normally done when the body of water is too small, you add a cooling tower, cycle the tertiary coolant through it and compensate for evaporation from the water source.
The issue here is that the body of water is "intermediate", so it was large enough the designer felt they didn't need cooling tower as inflow would be sufficient in all but extreme case, except the extreme case is becoming the normal.