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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today
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France's Power Prices Jump 22% as Heatwave Trims Nuclear Output

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OilPrice.comFrance's Power Prices Jump 22% as Heatwave Trims Nuclear Output | OilPrice.comFrance's day-ahead power prices jumped 22% as a fifth summer heatwave forces EDF to cut nuclear output by 7.3 GW.
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KeenFlame@KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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Que? Heat waves don’t trim nuclear output

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Tarambor@Tarambor@lemmy.world
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They do. What happens is that either water levels drop sufficiently enough or the temperature of the water in the rivers that they’re drawing from rises to a point that it cannot provide sufficient cooling so they have to turn down or turn off the reactor.

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KeenFlame@KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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Interesting, thank you for the explanation!

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