Did you miss the part on how the use of river water for cooling than a cooling tower was an engineering decision?
No, I didn't miss it. I don't understand why you think not agreeing with you somehow suggests people didn't read what you wrote.
There's nothing inherent to nuclear power that boils the local rivers, it is simply that people in France decided to save money on cooling towers by expecting to be able to dump heat into the river.
And given that decision, then cooling is limited. That you think that they should have made a different decision doesn't change the facts on the ground.
And you seem to be almost entirely clueless about the UK's climate.
Sure, whatever. If you want to make an issue out of waste heat from a nuclear power plant then you need to do better. We know how to cool nuclear power plants without killing fish
My issue here was that you made statements about the UK climate that were incorrect, not cooling.
Maybe we put batteries next to the nuclear power plants to aid in bridging over these issues of temporary reductions in output due to the occasional heatwaves.
And it could also be used with wind and solar. TCO is the key. Is nuclear plus batteries really viable?
If you believe nuclear power is a bad decision for the UK because a heatwave could reduce power output then I suggest informing the UK government of this.
Again, you confuse an objection to your panglossian view to a wider criticism of nuclear or government. By presenting your overly optimistic view, sweeping so much under the carpet, you actually damage the case for nuclear. You can only assess it with all the information.
Okay then, we overbuild on nuclear power
That doesn't seem likely to be cost-effective.
I don't see much concern with weather impacting the output of wind and solar power,
That's a concern too. But you don't effectively promote nuclear as an option by ignoring its issues.
So, whatever the concern is with nuclear power and weather we can simply apply the same solutions we'd use for wind and solar. Overbuild of generation and batteries seems to be the answer for most every concern with weather and intermittent renewable energy like wind and solar.
That's too expensive for nuclear when nuclear is expensive in the first place.
