I have a message for nuclear bros about climate change. Heatwaves will affect the operations of existing nuclear power plants.

Also, we shouldn’t shut down existing nuclear power plants but we can’t build sufficient number of new ones fast enough to decarbonize with just nuclear.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/frances-edf-takes-13-gw-nuclear-reactor-offline-amid-heatwave-2023-08-21/

@davidho

Not good at all, so water temperature in rivers is now too warm to cool reactors, we are really messing things up, will it take an over heating nuclear reactor going bang, irradiating a huge area for people to FINALLY WAKE UP. ?

@zleap @davidho no, the river water is not too warm to cool reactors. It's too warm in the sense that after cooling the reactor, it would be returned to the river too hot for wildlife. A nuclear accident is not at stakes at the moment, but a huge ecological problem is.