Re:All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected
by i_am_proteus on Sunday October 31, 2021 @09:50AM
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>Nuclear emphatically cannot provide that.
This is a falsehood. Nuclear plants can and do load-follow.
They typically are run as close to 100% as possible because so much of the cost of the plant is divorced from the power output at any one time. Framed a different way, they are somewhat more expensive to idle or run at lower utilization fractions than other sources of electricity. But they certainly can (and do) operate this way when needed.
They typically are run as close to 100% as possible because so much of the cost of the plant is divorced from the power output at any one time. Framed a different way, they are somewhat more expensive to idle or run at lower utilization fractions than other sources of electricity. But they certainly can (and do) operate this way when needed.