"Alaric B Snell" wrote in message
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Jon Elson wrote:

Their first job will be to stablize the reactor, getting
coolant temperatures, pressures and levels to normal
idling levels. Once that is done, they have to determine
whether they can reconnect the plant to the grid and
ramp up power.

Well, in almost all conditions, they never even bother to trip the
reactor, they just let it run at rated power and attempt to get their
load back. In the case of the recent blackout, they may have reduced
reactor power, knowing it would be quite a while before they could
get back on the grid.

It might be worth while developing some large power store system to be
kept on-site at a nuclear reactor... like the thing we Brits have in
Wales, a large lake up a mountain which water is pumped to when the grid
is underloaded, and used for hydroelectric power when it's not.

They have these all over the world, they are called pump back units.

JTMcC.



Sadly, building an artificial mountain + lake next to every reactor
might be tricky. Huge flywheels, maybe?


Jon


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