“The power in a nuclear reactor is not wasted by running it at a reduced power level. And as I said in post 28, it’s fairly easy to change power level in a General Electric reactor.”
Well, I should have qualified my statements to “if what the article says is true” (that it has to be run wide open). I saw posts that said it could be throttled back, and I don’t dispute that. I was just using the so called facts in the article and good old logic to see the answer is that you have to have the correct mix of nuclear power and flexible power and there is no problem. France did not do that. Of course, you solution would solve the problem too (they don’t have to run wide open).
Well, as is usually the case, there were few facts in that article.
I don’t blame the author or any of the readers. I only know this stuff because I lived it. The author has been watching too much television.
Fun facts: Extremely radioactive stuff does NOT glow green. It glows blue. If you ever get radioactive enough to glow, you will have been dead for a while.
Also, a “critical” reactor is not a bad thing. The term “critical” only means the reactor is operating at a steady state, neither increasing power nor decreasing power.