Comment on US slows plans to retire coal plants because of AI power usage

• poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nuclear power in its current form is actively detrimental to grid stability, as it is produced in a few central locations and can not be realistically up and down regulated.

  The newly installed decentralised grid batteries in California have just proven that this model works much better.

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  • d4f0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    New nuclear plants can be regulated without problems. Old nuclear plants weren’t designated that way, although they can be improved to be able to do it, but this isn’t usually done as old plants will most likely be shutdown in the short term and investors don’t want to spend any money in them.

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    • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No, hypothetical new modular plants might be better at regulation, but the recently build and still under construction ones are not.

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      • d4f0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No, already existing nuclear plants can regulate, as it’s needed for places with lots of nuclear power like France.

        powermag.com/flexible-operation-of-nuclear-power-…

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