Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
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Re: Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
#2> the temperature of the Danube, whose water is used to cool the plant, reached 29.72 degrees Celsius
Re: Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
#3"Nuclear plant does what it is designed to do"
Re: Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
#4> the temperature of the Danube, whose water is used to cool the plant, reached 29.72 degrees Celsius
Still works for cooling, right?
It's not that there's any technical issues; it's that there's ecological issues. Though there's going to be much larger ecological issues if we have to replace it with coal.
Re: Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
#5"Nuclear plant does what it is designed to do"
Climate change starts hurting one of our best chances of avoiding climate change.
Re: Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
#6"Nuclear plant does what it is designed to do"
The news here, and thus the interesting and probably unexpected thing to note, is that if we depend on natural sources for water to cool nuclear plants and due to climate change the temperature of waters rise, we need to adjust where we build plants and/or spend extra energy to cool down the water to in turn cool down the plants.
Re: Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
#7> the temperature of the Danube, whose water is used to cool the plant, reached 29.72 degrees Celsius
Still works for cooling, right? It's not that there's any technical issues; it's that there's ecological issues. Though there's going to be much larger ecological issues if we have to replace it with coal.
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Re: Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
#8"Nuclear plant does what it is designed to do"
The news here, and thus the interesting and probably unexpected thing to note, is that if we depend on natural sources for water to cool nuclear plants and due to climate change the temperature of waters rise, we need to adjust where we build plants and/or spend extra energy to cool down the water to in turn cool down the plants.
Its not just that water temperature rises but that there is less of it (ie drought) so the constant amount of constantly hot water from the plant gets mixed with less water left in the river increasing its temperature more
Re: Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The news here, and thus the interesting and probably unexpected thing to note, is that if we depend on natural sources for water to cool nuclear plants and due to climate change the temperature of waters rise, we need to adjust where we build plants and/or spend extra energy to cool down the water to in turn cool down the plants.
Its not just that water temperature rises but that there is less of it (ie drought) so the constant amount of constantly hot water from the plant gets mixed with less water left in the river increasing its temperature more
Well it's got more to do with not wanting to boil the river ecosystem rather then being unable to cool the plant.
Re: Hungary nuclear plant cuts output because of warm Danube waters
#10> the temperature of the Danube, whose water is used to cool the plant, reached 29.72 degrees Celsius
Still works for cooling, right? It's not that there's any technical issues; it's that there's ecological issues. Though there's going to be much larger ecological issues if we have to replace it with coal.
Works for cooling, but kills everything in the water. Besides last time I was there 3 years ago, the temperature was not uniform and there were waves of 34 °C water. Seems like nothing has changed since then:
https://atlatszo.hu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kagylokpaks.j...
