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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. Air conditioning ruined the South by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Before air conditioning, yankees stayed in yankeeland. After air conditioning they moved to places where they weren't welcome. They cranked on the AC so that their sweaty bodies, which were filled with saurkraut and matzos, wouldn't drip so much.

    They used electric driers to dry their sweaty clothes. Yankees suck energy away like there is no tomorrow. The South never had a "carbon footprint" before yankee glutons moved to Miami and Atlanta. Most of us grew up without air conditioning and were happy that way. We used clothes lines to hang and dry our clothes, not electric driers. Life was good.

  2. Re:In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sorry, i didn't know i had to use a different name for a thing that already had a unique name. my bad, i've missed my propaganda lessons this week

  3. 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.
  4. 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