Heat Waves Weaken Europe’s Electricity System: Less Water, Less Nuclear and More Gas Fueled by Ormuz
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Not only the low water on the Danube makes some of the European nuclear power plants to be created. Many find it difficult to maintain the operation.
Heat Waves Weaken Europe’s Electricity System: Less Water, Less Nuclear and More Gas Fueled by Ormuz
With more heat, more electricity demand for cooling. It lowers the production of hydroelectric, nuclear and sometimes wind. More information: France, Hungary and now Romania: the drought in Europe causes a domino effect of dozens of nuclear stops.
Greenpeace warns that more than a third of Europe’s nuclear power has been rendered out of service this summer by heat waves and drought, and questions its role as a backup to the power supply. The warning comes from the environmental organisation Greenpeace, which documents a summer marked by stops, failed start-ups and load cuts in European reactors. The data is strong: the atomic power not available has at several times exceeded one third of …
A week ago, the power plant reduced reactor power by 20 percent due to extremely high temperatures and low water levels in the Sava River.
On Thursday 13 August, Romania shut down the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, the only one in the country, due to the drought. Bucharest is now forced to import energy. An absurd situation that exacerbates commentators.
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