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Related: About this forumHot Weather Spells Trouble For Nuclear Power Plants
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/632988813/hot-weather-spells-trouble-for-nuclear-power-plantsNuclear power plants in Europe have been forced to cut back electricity production because of warmer-than-usual seawater.
Plants in Finland, Sweden and Germany have been affected by a heat wave that has broken records in Scandinavia and the British Isles and exacerbated deadly wildfires along the Mediterranean.
Air temperatures have stubbornly lingered above 90 degrees in many parts of Sweden, Finland and Germany, and water temperatures are abnormally high 75 degrees or higher in the usually temperate Baltic Sea.
That's bad news for nuclear power plants, which rely on seawater to cool reactors.
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Hot Weather Spells Trouble For Nuclear Power Plants (Original Post)
jpak
Jul 2018
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Great --that means burning more natural gas, which seems to be the fallback everywhere. nt
eppur_se_muova
Jul 2018
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eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)1. Great --that means burning more natural gas, which seems to be the fallback everywhere. nt
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)3. And more fracking to produce said natural gas? n/t
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)2. 75 degree water
now I can fulfill my life long dream of diving the Baltic without a wetsuit.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)4. I'm sure climate change will continue to cause the need
to adjust a lot of things.