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suddenlybananasyesterday at 4:41 PM1 replyview on HN

>Nuclear will also boil over Swiss rivers and shallow lakes.

What on earth are you talking about?


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Arodexyesterday at 4:55 PM

Slight hyperbole, but nuclear reactors in Switzerland and France shut down more and more often because the water needed to cool them down is already too hot:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/climate-adaptation/beznau-nucle...

It is far from boiling, but these limits are there to avoid killing all life in the rivers.

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