I mentioned this last August: nuclear plants are thirsty. Though they help with the carbon problem, they are also vulnerable to climate shifts. (The article I referenced then seems to have expired.)
(Why are newspapers so silly? I am sure that paid archives achieve less for them than ongoing advertisements. The NY Times seems to have figured it out...)
Here's another article in the same vein: the southeastern drought is causing power shortages over there by shutting down nukes. Let's hope that this eases before the summer cooling season kicks in.
Coal based power stations have the same problem- in the middle of last year, three Australian states (out of 6) had to curtail coal-based power generation because they had no water for cooling.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/24/2014680.htm?site=victoria