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Re:French Nuclear Outages Risk Making Europe’s Gas Crisis Worse by Fiahil on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:09AM (#32192737)
didn't that only apply to open circuit cooling, rather than the closed circuit cooling that you would expect in most reactors ?

> The precise situation depends on the reactor. But in general terms, water is either returned directly, which is known as an open circuit, which can lead to general downstream river temperatures increasing several degrees, or the water is returned after cooling in air-cooling towers, known as a closed circuit, which typically leads to lower rises of downstream river temperatures, of a few tenths of a degree.

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Re:French Nuclear Outages Risk Making Europe’s Gas Crisis Worse by b3orn on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:09PM (#32193626)
A lot (not all) of cooling towers still require water for evaporative cooling. And the restrictions aren't just for temperatures of returned water they're also for the amount of water taken from rivers, during droughts that amount might get reduced quite a lot.
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