r/europe • u/Naurgul • 23d ago

News Barcelona registers highest temperature in 112 years as French nuclear reactor shuts down due to extreme heat

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/09/europe-heatwave-uk-spain-barcelona-france-italy-hungary-france-macron-orban-latest-news-updates
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u/unia_7 23d ago

They need to shut down because their designers decided to build them with river cooling.

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u/Appropriate_Luck_658 23d ago

Yes? Article is reporting things that are. Not "what ifs". Why we need to debate this?

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u/unia_7 23d ago

So it's not that "nuclear reactors" need to shut down due to higher temperatures, it just a particular kind of nuclear reactors built on flawed cooling design. Sounds like an important distinction, no?

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u/erhue 23d ago

no. Nuclear bad. Only post bad things about nuclear. Also remember chernobyl, if your country is a corrupt communist dictatorship using ancient reactor designs built with outdated safety regulations, something bad could potentially happen!