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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by throw0101a on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:53AM (#30163209)
> No, nuclear plants are regularly taken offline for weather related reasons.

As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, where we have 10,000 MW of nuclear (click "Supply"):

* https://ieso.ca/power-data

This does not happen here.

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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by coliveira on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:08AM (#30163447)
Probably because Ontario has ample access to water cooling, probably from the lakes. That's not the case for many countries in Europe.
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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by throw0101a on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:12AM (#30163512)
No doubt. But it's important to differentiate "inherit" limitations of a technology versus situational ones.

Plenty of EU countries have coast lines too.

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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by Fnoord on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:10AM (#30207692)
Yeah, and they have floods, too (Re: Fukushima). I'm a proponent of nuclear fission energy (to complement solar/wind/hydro) but it has to be done safely. Hopefully in the future we don't have to rely on it (switch to nuclear fusion or something else), or solve the nuclear waste issue somehow.
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