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0 pointsRandomLensman1y ago0 comments

France in 2022 didn't have a lot of capacity down at the same time? Availability was at 40% of maximum capacity for about a month at it's lowest.

How these things will be managed in the real world matters, too, not just how it could play out hypothetically.

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mpweiher1y ago

Yep. That was a one-time occurrence, due to (a) inspections being deferred during COVID and (b) France's long time catastrophic underinvestment in their nuclear fleet.

Until March 2023, there was a law in France that made it illegal to increase nuclear capacity in absolute terms and mandated reduction to under 50% in relative terms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=isgu-VrD0oM

But again, a one-time event, and it doesn't change the high capacity factors world-wide (over 80%) and the extremely high capacity factors in reasonably well run fleets ( > 90% in the US, and also inGermany when they still had nuclear ).

RandomLensmanOP1y ago

One time or not, need to be able to deal with it, as need to be able deal with the possibility of underinvestment etc. - especially if fleets get much bigger.

mpweiher1y ago

1. They were able to deal with it. And had even more options to deal with it.

2. A one time event has little to no effect on overall capacity factors.

3. Underinvestment is very easy to deal with: invest adequately.

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0 pointsRandomLensman1y ago0 comments

France in 2022 didn't have a lot of capacity down at the same time? Availability was at 40% of maximum capacity for about a month at it's lowest.

How these things will be managed in the real world matters, too, not just how it could play out hypothetically.

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mpweiher1y ago

Yep. That was a one-time occurrence, due to (a) inspections being deferred during COVID and (b) France's long time catastrophic underinvestment in their nuclear fleet.

Until March 2023, there was a law in France that made it illegal to increase nuclear capacity in absolute terms and mandated reduction to under 50% in relative terms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=isgu-VrD0oM

RandomLensmanOP1y ago

One time or not, need to be able to deal with it, as need to be able deal with the possibility of underinvestment etc. - especially if fleets get much bigger.

mpweiher1y ago

1. They were able to deal with it. And had even more options to deal with it.

2. A one time event has little to no effect on overall capacity factors.

3. Underinvestment is very easy to deal with: invest adequately.

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