France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat
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2 hours ago
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tekla
29 minutes ago
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So yeah in the mostly probable case that reading was not involved in many of the comments, they were not shut down for a technical issue but the govt stops them from discharging the water.

All the reactor works fine and would work fine. Gov makes choice to let people hurt

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dotcoma
2 hours ago
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Doesn’t happen to solar plants.
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Rygian
40 minutes ago
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Their nuclear reactor goes away every night though.
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toomuchtodo
10 minutes ago
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“We have these things called ‘batteries.’” —- Rep. Magaziner from the great state of Rhode Island during a recent Congressional hearing.

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/bergum-trum...

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mlqlavgdkk2a

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/chart-grid-ba...

https://www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releases/new-report-e...

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fragmede
20 minutes ago
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Obviously the solution to that is to put mirrors in space to reflect sunlight so their collectors also work at night.
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sudb
1 hour ago
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I was sure this couldn't be true but I couldn't find anything about high temperatures shutting down solar plants.

But I did find something about a predicted grid overload during a sunny period requiring a solar plant to go offline:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/12/solar-fa...

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netsharc
39 minutes ago
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Just redirect the solar power to cool the water going out of the nuclear powerplant.

"Just".

My 4th grade physics knowledge is telling me this doesn't work, because the heat energy from the water still has to go somewhere...

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selimthegrim
30 minutes ago
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782370
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toomuchtodo
1 hour ago
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Because they need more battery storage, which Europe is rapidly building.
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sudb
1 hour ago
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It can't come fast enough! I have a friend who works on battery storage in Europe and it sounds like an extremely busy time for them, which I'm glad for.
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2snakes
3 minutes ago
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Is it iron-air batteries?
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