Dean Hoffman writes:

On Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 9:55:32 AM UTC-6, bruce bowser wrote:

"Nuclear power provides about 11% of Texas electricity. But one of
two reactors at the South Texas Project nuclear plant tripped offline
on Monday. It was a big plant to lose, costing the state 1.3
gigawatts of power generation, about a quarter of its total nuclear
capacity. The cold weather caused a false signal to shut down a
feedwater intake, tripping a pump offline and then the entire
generating unit."


What happened to the mini sized reactors that were supposed to be
built for electrical power years ago? Tree huggers, terrorists, cost,
something else??

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...n-is-approved/

Reached approval last September, scheduled for operation 2029.

Some "experts" have questioned the safety of these reactors
worrying about a "criticality condition". Clearly anyone
thinking that way is a tree hugger. As I understand it,
Chernobyl was good for the trees and will be good for those
trees for at least 20,000 years.

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Dan Espen