Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year

Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by nitrogen on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:43PM (#29657390)

Are there closed loop reactor designs that don't need to dump heat into a body of water?

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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by hollerith on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:58PM (#29665165)

Thermodynamics says that it needs to dump heat somewhere, but maybe they can dump it into the atmosphere instead using hyperboloid cooling towers.

Those are huge though (at least "natural draft" ones are) and usually made of concrete, and making the concrete currently requires lots of carbon emissions.

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