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Heat Wave Shuts Down Alabama Reactor

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the weathering-the-heat dept.

mdsolar writes "In a first for the US, one of three nuclear reactors at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama has been shut down because the Tennessee River is too hot to provide adequate cooling for the waste heat produced by the reactor. This is happening as the TVA faces its highest demand for power ever, reports the Houston Chronicle. This effect has been seen in Europe in the past, forcing reduced generation, but the US has until now been immune to the problem. The TVA will buy power elsewhere and impose higher rates, blaming reduced river flow as a result of drought."

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  1. Re:In Soviet Russia by bcmm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Imperial America?

    --
    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
  2. Re:In Soviet Russia by Skinny+Rav · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Soviet Russia doesn't refer to USSR. It's to distinguish it from Tsarist Russia, or Kievan Russia, or any of the other regimes that ruled Russia


    Obviously off-topic, but since you were modded up to Informative, I would like to clarify. Soviet Russia is often used as a synonym for Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic especially before proclamation of the USSR in 1922. In English it was usually referred to as Bolshevist Russia, but in other languages it is called what translates to Soviet Russia. In Russian it was Sovetskaya respublika or Rossiyskaya respublika. So it is more than just notion that it is 'Russia under Soviet rule'.

    Cheers