Nuclear power

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

That's why I said CO2.

Indeed. But anyway, CO² is far from the evil depicted by eco-terrorists willing to find a "culprit" and use it as an escape goat to cease economic development.

[oil pan 4]

Wind turbines in every direction as far as the eye can see, still makes less power than one larger nuke plant

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

Wind turbines in every direction as far as the eye can see, still makes less power than one larger nuke plant

i guess you know, many people who are too lazy to implement safety protocols for a nuke are also too lazy to think about the proper maintenance of a "safe" energy

[oil pan 4]

The legendary Garland Windsor.
https://youtu.be/BeXn3JvSWJ4

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BeXn3J...ature=youtu.be

Some say his balls are made of enriched uranium.
Says spent reactor fuel is worth at least 10 million dollars per ton in early 1980s dollars.
Maine Yankee nuclear power plant ran at 103% of name plate power.
Predicts "small modular reactors" are the future.

[aerohead]

There have been reports explaining how some reactors have been forced to reduce power output, as their cooling ponds, lakes, or coastal ocean water temperatures increase on account of climate change, exceeding the original design heat rejection capabilities of the cooling water / heat-exchangers.
Also, warming seas are amplifying jellyfish populations, which are clogging the cooling water inlets of coastal nuclear power plants.
And nuclear-powered British Royal Navy ships have been forced to leave the Persian Gulf area at times, because their onboard reactors cannot reliably reject reactor heat to the increasingly-the hotter ocean water.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by aerohead

There have been reports explaining how some reactors have been forced to reduce power output, as their cooling ponds, lakes, or coastal ocean water temperatures increase on account of climate change, exceeding the original design heat rejection capabilities of the cooling water / heat-exchangers.

Makes sense. Just like some folks, while tuning the engine of their cars, often replace the radiator for one with improved capacity.

[Hersbird]

The only nuclear ships in the UK are a few submarines. I doubt they couldn't operate in the warmest ocean temps, but maybe they couldn't operate at peak performance. One noticeable difference in the British nuclear subs is they use a scoop injected condensate system for heat transfer. I'm sure they also have pumps or it wouldn't work at the dock, but the point is to shut the pumps off when moving fast enough to be quiet. So they can operate in warm waters, they just may not be as quiet.

I sort of doubt this is actually the case though because all you need is enough cooling to condense steam in a separate loop. The turbine almost pull enough energy out to condense it there and it become "wet" instead of "dry" steam. Now you just want to pull a little more energy out to make it liquid so it can be pumped. It's all under pressure so we aren't talking boiling at 100 C but this is happening more like 400 C. The system is designed to be efficient and need as little cooling as possible on the steam side just enough to change the state from steam to almost boiling water.
Here is a PDF about some different land based cooling. I learned on a reactor in the desert where all the cooling was done on a closed loop and then through evaporator towers. It make the whole system a little less efficient, but they is so much clean energy available in Nuclear power a little wasted energy for more safety and less impact in a remote desert seems like a good idea.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...nunt0bCz-WGTLJ

[oil pan 4]

Three mile island, we're taking it back.
https://whyy.org/articles/three-mile...clear-restart/

[freebeard]

Maybe:

“Though we have determined it would be technically feasible to restart the unit, we have not made any decision on a restart as there are many economic, commercial, operational and regulatory considerations remaining,” Snyder said.

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Maybe:

It looks like 3 mile islands good twin up in Michigan will restart in approximately a year (probably 2).