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Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by CalRobert on Thursday November 28, 2024 @02:53PM (#42268114)
Eh… plutonium? I think uranium is the usual choice.

Home batteries can be part of a grid level response but this is nascent.

Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) by rsynnott on Thursday November 28, 2024 @05:46PM (#42269110)
France, unusually, actually does, or at least did, use significant amounts of plutonium (a combo of decommissioned weapons and nuclear reprocessing output) in nuclear energy generation, but yeah, primarily uranium.