> French nuclear supply stood at a much reduced 50% of available capacity on Wednesday, with a slew of reactors having gone offline in recent months owing to issues with corrosion found in the welding of reactor safety circuits.
sounds dangerously unreliable.
It’s insane. Nuclear is probably the most sane way, bar nuclear waste, to combat climate change in the short term yet every climate change supporter reaches for untenable goals of renewables. Maybe we should just shut everything non-green off and see how long batteries last…
If 1.5+ degrees is now baked in, what happens with all the low-lying coastal nuke plants when Antarctica and Greenland melt and the sea level rises by a few meters? Do these plants have pump systems that can allow them to continue operating permanently underwater? Or were they built high enough not to be submerged? I mean we cannot realistically stop the melt water from coming, can we? Sea walls around the plants only? What is the plan?
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> French nuclear supply stood at a much reduced 50% of available capacity on Wednesday, with a slew of reactors having gone offline in recent months owing to issues with corrosion found in the welding of reactor safety circuits.
sounds dangerously unreliable.
It’s insane. Nuclear is probably the most sane way, bar nuclear waste, to combat climate change in the short term yet every climate change supporter reaches for untenable goals of renewables. Maybe we should just shut everything non-green off and see how long batteries last…
If 1.5+ degrees is now baked in, what happens with all the low-lying coastal nuke plants when Antarctica and Greenland melt and the sea level rises by a few meters? Do these plants have pump systems that can allow them to continue operating permanently underwater? Or were they built high enough not to be submerged? I mean we cannot realistically stop the melt water from coming, can we? Sea walls around the plants only? What is the plan?
edit: fat finger a.k.a. illiterate, sry