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Re: One-third of France's nukes shut down

I recall eating at a restaurant on the coast in the Los Angeles area.  One could see a clump of dozens of fishermen, shoulder to shoulder, happily fishing, but none elsewhere.  I asked about it, and I was told that  was the outfall of cooling water from a nearby (non-nuclear) power plant.  The warm water attracted fish.  So much for thermal pollution.


Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:51 pm

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High temperatures have forced France to shut down 20 gigawatts of nuclear generation, according to the London Times. ...
schedule80
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Jul 8, 2009
3:36 am

During a heat wave in 2003, the river water temperatures upstream of several of France's nuclear plants exceeded the 24C limit. The following link (pdf)...
schedule80
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Jul 9, 2009
2:01 am

Yes, it is difficult to cool a reactor with intake water that is warmer than the discharge water. NASA had a small research reactor at their Plum Brook...
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Jul 9, 2009
8:42 pm

Wow...considering fresh water IS radioactive, that would be a hard hurtle to pass. Kind of like the panic over the Japanese earth quake in 2007 where there was...
David Walters
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Jul 9, 2009
9:39 pm

This gets more questionable the more I look into it. There are descriptions, usually with pictures, of the French nuclear stations in Wikipedia. Almost all of...
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Jul 10, 2009
1:10 am

Pete, like you, I'm more familiar with once-through cooling systems. Actually, evaporative cooling systems, excluding latest 'keller'? models which only...
David Walters
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Jul 10, 2009
4:37 pm

I recall eating at a restaurant on the coast in the Los Angeles area. One could see a clump of dozens of fishermen, shoulder to shoulder, happily fishing,...
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Jul 10, 2009
8:52 pm

... Actually I've fished at my power plant out fall as well on my time off. The problem, more seriously, with 'thermal pollution' isn't the thermal part, that...
David Walters
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Jul 11, 2009
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