Europe’s Nuclear Plants Can’t Beat the Heat
Europe’s blistering heat wave is threatening energy security across the continent as power plants shut down and the risk of rolling blackouts rises. Electric grids are overstressed, and ecosystems are too. Rivers are greatly affected by soaring temperatures, which in turn impacts the energy industry
Source: OilPrice.com
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The article was truncated before it could explain which plants or what threshold temperature caused shutdowns. European reactors typically throttle or halt when river coolant exceeds 28°C — a constraint that will recur every summer but which governments prefer to treat as weather rather than baseload incapacity.