Re:European natural gas imports and storage reserves
by phicoh on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @09:56AM
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This summer, France has been importing significant amounts of electricity from countries that burn gas or coal. You don't do that if you have plenty of nuclear power available.
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Re:European natural gas imports and storage reserves
by kennend3 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:10AM
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Re-read what i wrote.. if you know that water levels will be low and you purposely idle your reactors annually.. then you do import power.
It looks like this is NOT a new problem (from 2016) https://www.economist.com/business/2016/12/01/frances-nuclea...