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> Nuclear power plants provides stable power regardless of weather, wind and climate

I know some German powerplants have to lower power output when the cooling water gets low during heat waves: https://qz.com/1348969/europes-heatwave-is-forcing-nuclear-p...

But is that still the case with newly build plants?

Not a single german nuclear plant was powered down to heat or low water.

Thanks. Corrected.

Do you know if it still the case with modern reactors that they are affected by heatwaves?

It‘s rather easy to build cooling towers, so only a small problem.

Which is not really true. German plants were also throttling down significantly in summer. They were just not completely shutting down.

Citation?

Not German power plants, French ones, where they were cheaping out on cooling towers by not building them and are using rivers for 3rd stage cooling.