Weather tracker: Unusually warm rivers affect French nuclear power plants

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1. Weather extremes impact almost everything humans build.

It's not a problem exclusive to nuclear power plants.

Compare this to the 2021 power crisis in Texas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

There the electric grid failed because the weather was colder than the designers and operators of the system had anticipated as the "worst case."

Wind and solar power systems fail to produce power as expected frequently but the promoters of these technologies, for incomprehensible reasons, seem to find this unremarkable.

In this case the nuclear power plants are reducing their output to protect the riparian environment. A fossil fuel power plant cooled by river water would face the same restrictions.