Re:Germany's Energy Catastrophe
by BenoitP on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:53AM
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> it is hard to control the output in a short amount of time
Well, France has been doing it just fine for the last 33 years:
> [...] flexible operation of nuclear reactors is possible and has been applied in France by EDF’s 58 reactors for more than 30 years without any noticeable or unmanageable impacts: no effects on safety or on the environment, and no noticeable additional maintenance costs, with an additional unplanned capability load factor estimated at only 0.5%. EDF’s nuclear reactors have the capability to vary their output between 20% and 100% within 30 minutes, twice a day, when operating in load-following mode
Well, France has been doing it just fine for the last 33 years:
> [...] flexible operation of nuclear reactors is possible and has been applied in France by EDF’s 58 reactors for more than 30 years without any noticeable or unmanageable impacts: no effects on safety or on the environment, and no noticeable additional maintenance costs, with an additional unplanned capability load factor estimated at only 0.5%. EDF’s nuclear reactors have the capability to vary their output between 20% and 100% within 30 minutes, twice a day, when operating in load-following mode
From here (pdf):
https://hal-edf.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01977209/document