Comment on China starts up world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor
Wanderer@lemm.ee 9 months agosteerable demand. I’d rather that be nuclear.
Not going to happen. That’s not how nuclear works.
Comment on China starts up world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactor
Wanderer@lemm.ee 9 months agosteerable demand. I’d rather that be nuclear.
Not going to happen. That’s not how nuclear works.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Nuclear is steerable for renewables, sure. You wouldn’t use nuclear for frequency management (pumped storage, battery and a few - hopefully never used - gas plants manage frequency) but renewables don’t change their output that quickly. You pretty much know what you’re going to get out of renewable resources tomorrow and you certainly know what you’re going to get out in the next four hours. If nuclear was built to support this planning (with molten salt or other heat store) it could be done very economically.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’m struggling to fine anything that says Sweden have used there nuclear power flexibility. That’s not even mentioning if they have done it for a good price point.