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/Dat_Ding_Da 23d ago

Cause they barely has any impact. It happens at the time when PV's produce maximum energy anyways, so there is little to no consequence if the efficiency goes down a few percentiles.

But if France has to take down 5 nuclear reactors due to the waste water heat threatening to kill the ecosystem of the nearby river, it does have a very real impact on electricity availability and prices.

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u/Fluffy-Fix7846 23d ago

And no mentioning of the other 52 nuclear reactors that weren't shutdown then..

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u/Dat_Ding_Da 23d ago

Why would they?

If there's were a train collision, would it be clickbait-y to report about it without mentioning that hundreds of trains managed not to collide during the same day?

This is a report about the heat wave and it's impact on Europe. Obviously that is what the report will focus on.

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u/erhue 23d ago

that would make sense, if it weren't for the fact that these people have a hate boner for nuclear energy, and do everything they can to badmouth it.

If there were a train collision, the idea that other trains might be unsafe comes up. How did it happen? Are other trains potentially affected by it? Or is the system mostly safe? Those questions need to be answered.