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Re:Nothing like this will be built again (2002) by legulere on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:47PM (#29894869)
You could also construct the argument the other way around: Demand is highest during the day and nuclear is struggling to follow the demand.

It’s also not weather-independent. When the water temperature is too hot the power stations have to be turned off.

Further it’s pretty common that when one reactor has an issue others of the same type will get turned off too to check if they have the same issue.

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Re:Nothing like this will be built again (2002) by koide on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @12:56PM (#29895027)
That's one (powerful) argument against this intermittency myth on one of the sources I link to here. The grid already is powered by intermittent sources, no power plant is on 365x24.
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