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[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure this is a water discharge problem alone. It seems an operational issue, and it seems unlikely a bright engineer with an eye on global warming didn't ever bring it up. That is, we're told that concern didn't fit their pay grade.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 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 10 hours ago

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