| ▲ | buckle8017 2 hours ago | |
> Weirdly phrased since when you have a full, real nuclear plant you need to be ready to deal with that tripping off the grid suddenly, because it happens regularly. It does not, what is with solar proponents and lying? | ||
| ▲ | LorenPechtel 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Nuke plants are hypersensitive about tripping. The problem is they are required to maintain two entirely separate external sources of power at all times. Something drives it below two, the plant trips even though absolutely nothing is wrong with the plant. | ||
| ▲ | ZeroGravitas an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
And yet in the US one tripped this month (that we are only two weeks into) and one tripped last month too. HN link for last month's: | ||