Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants

Re:Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-pol... by edhelas on Monday July 26, 2021 @01:28PM (#27962291)

And that's exactly why you have several nuclear reactors in a plant and several turbines, and several power lines…

Please be a bit serious about what you're saying, you don't have to actually turn of a plant when you need to refuel. If any kind of plant (including hydro) need to be completely turned off for maintenance its really because you had a major design flaw.

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Re:Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-pol... by philipkglass on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:10PM (#27962947)

Most of the nuclear power plants that Germany built were single-reactor plants and would shut down for refueling. Multi-reactor plants will stagger shutdowns so that the plant continues to generate at reduced power. It is the same in the US. Only a few reactor designs like CANDU are capable of online refueling without interruption. Planned shutdowns for refueling are scheduled for low-demand times of the year.

Here's a nuclear industry blog post explaining the practice: http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-happens-dur...

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Re:Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-pol... by edhelas on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:29PM (#27963256)

Interesting, thanks for the link :) !

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