if you looked at what is going on, you would see that bulk of the missing energy in hungarian grid is supplied from czech and slovak grids, where half or so energy is supplied from nuclear powerplants that don’t have such problems https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/CZ/72h/hourly
not to mention the french, who put bunch of their reactors near shore and won’t ever have problems with cooling, and so export 10-15GW every day
This is to avoid overheating river, seashore powerplants or those that rely on evaporative cooling towers don’t have this problem. Also, it’s as good time for maintenance as any other, and they still exported loads of electricity the entire time
You make this sound like they do it for laughs and giggles and it’s optional, not because increasing the temperature in already hot bodies of water even more literally kills wildlife.
if you looked at what is going on, you would see that bulk of the missing energy in hungarian grid is supplied from czech and slovak grids, where half or so energy is supplied from nuclear powerplants that don’t have such problems https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/CZ/72h/hourly
not to mention the french, who put bunch of their reactors near shore and won’t ever have problems with cooling, and so export 10-15GW every day
About that: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260712-france-temporarily-shuts-down-three-nuclear-reactors-over-heatwave
This happens literally every hot summer.
This is to avoid overheating river, seashore powerplants or those that rely on evaporative cooling towers don’t have this problem. Also, it’s as good time for maintenance as any other, and they still exported loads of electricity the entire time
You make this sound like they do it for laughs and giggles and it’s optional, not because increasing the temperature in already hot bodies of water even more literally kills wildlife.
Plenty of thermal powerplants use cooling towers and don’t have this problem, this is not a limitation of NPP