[Pontiac]

Nuke power is base load. It simply CANNOT be turned down when load goes down, it takes days, if not weeks to lower the output of a nuke plant.

It is true that Nuclear Power Plants are base load plants but it is not true that it takes days to lower out put. It can be lowered in a matter of minutes.

That being said Nuclear Power Plants are not good “Load Following” plants.

Varying power drastically over the course of a day makes it more difficult to control power.

[BobL]

I won’t argue very hard with you...since you’re almost certainly right.

But answer this - does pulling back the rods actually “save energy” or do the reactants continue to decay anyway?