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France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat (www.lemonde.fr)
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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

TBF France’s big push for nuclear started in the 1970s, so a lot of the reactors must have been designed by people not yet aware of global warming as even a theory.

[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Someone knew, but it I'm not sure most engineers did.