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by ceejayoz 609 days ago
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/632988813/hot-weather-spells-...

> Nuclear power plants in Europe have been forced to cut back electricity production because of warmer-than-usual seawater.

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This can be addressed by expanding heat exchangers. Unlike the river water cooling which is constrained by how much the plants are allowed to heat the river.
Primary coolant loop runs at arbitrary temperature, there's never going to be a point that a nuke can't be cooled. It's only matter of designed capacity.
So a coolant loop can run at 100.000 degree? How?