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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by merb on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:56PM (#26217647)
you know that after a hurricane it's way harder to restart a nuclear power plant than a wind turbine right? it's incredible hard to power a nuclear plant if your grid is destroyed. basically you can't start a nuclear power plant with no power at all.
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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by sudosysgen on Sunday February 21, 2021 @05:17PM (#26217836)
Nuclear reactors never completely turn off. They have generators that can supply the necessary power to run baseline systems and to restart them at any time.
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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by merb on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:55AM (#26222266)
that is not true, when there are disasters they sometimes get shutdown, to not have another catastrophe.

and even then just "restarting" it, is not as easy as restarting software.

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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by tonyedgecombe on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:59AM (#26222668)
We know from Fukishima that generators fail.
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