Romania is shutting down its Cernavodă nuclear power plant due to low water levels on the River Danube
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I do wonder whether this dry summer has poked a hole in the viability of nuclear power plants
But but but SMRs are going to totally fix every downside nuclear has! Just you wait! And now lend those poor SMR-developing companies some money, it's totally going to pay off! /s
You sound like coal enjoyer.
keep in mind one man's drought is another's flood.
I don't think that helps.
my point was that just because your local region has difficulty to manage cooling for nuclear power, doesn't mean everybody has problems cooling nuclear power.
Solar
Plus wind. Plus cheap sodium neighborhood backup batteries.
Brown danube