[JackOfVA]

I read somewhere a day or two ago that the plants were limited to cooling water discharge of 25C for environmental reasons but that some plants were now running 29-30C with waivers. The environmental types were demanding that the plants shut down, rather than exceed the 25C limit.

Also read that the outside of the containment vessel was another limiting factor, with a "not to exceed" 50C rating and some plants were in the 49C range and that the plant operators were spraying the outside of the containment vessels with water from fire hoses.

I've spend a lot of time in Europe in hot summers and once those masonary building heat up, it's miserable to sleep.

Jack

[meyer]

I read somewhere a day or two ago that the plants were limited to cooling water discharge of 25C for environmental reasons but that some plants were now running 29-30C with waivers. The environmental types were demanding that the plants shut down, rather than exceed the 25C limit.

I can beleive that - the environazis are that way. People are dying - screw the environmentalists in this case. Plus, they're wrong anyway.

Also read that the outside of the containment vessel was another limiting factor, with a "not to exceed" 50C rating and some plants were in the 49C range and that the plant operators were spraying the outside of the containment vessels with water from fire hoses.

Can't speak with much authority on the outside temperature constraints of the containment building, but the approach of using fire hoses isn't new - I remember more than one occasion where I had the fire department spraying the radiators on an electric transformer to cool it.

I've spend a lot of time in Europe in hot summers and once those masonary building heat up, it's miserable to sleep.

Yes, I recall brick/masonry buildings holding their heat, once they get warmed up. Dang bricks will radiate for days, which is good in the fall, but not in the summer.