a1305168 wrote: The power plants use water from the rivers to cool down their reactors, before sending the water back into the rivers. Overheated waters can result in mass fish die-offs, like those that occurred in Germany this week. ...(恕刪)
"We're going to have to solve the climate-change problem if we're going to have nuclear power, not the other way around," said David Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer... "As the climate warms up, nuclear power plants are less able to deliver," 如果要使用核電, 必須先解決氣候變遷的問題, 而不是反過來.
... During the extreme heat of 2003 in France, 17 nuclear reactors operated at reduced capacity or were turned off. Électricité de France was forced to buy power from neighboring countries on the open market, where demand drove the price of a megawatt hour as high as €1,000, or $1,350. Average prices in France during summer months ordinarily are about €95 per megawatt hour. The heat wave cost Électricité de France an extra €300 million... <=== 法國因為缺電要用比一般平均超過10多倍的電費向鄰國買電. In Germany, the energy giant E.ON also has been forced to reduce operations at its nuclear plants for months at a time because of heat... ...In Spain, a nuclear power reactor at Santa María de Garoña was shut for a week in July after high temperatures...
"Nuclear power actually is worsening the effects of climate change already under way,"