🇫🇷 France's heatwave just knocked 2 reactors offline.
EDF, the state-owned giant that runs France's entire nuclear fleet, pulled the plug on one reactor at the Nogent plant on the Seine just north of Paris, and another at Bugey on the Rhône near Lyon in the southeast.
The reason is the rivers. These plants cool their reactors with river water and send it back warmer, and with the rivers already heating up in the record heat, EDF was about to cross the legal temperature limit that exists to protect the fish and plant life. So they shut down rather than dump even hotter water back in.
It's not a one-off either. Nogent had already throttled a reactor earlier in the week, Golfech on the Garonne went dark too, and output's been trimmed at other sites.
A record heatwave, and it's the reactors that had to tap out.
Source: Euronews , BBC / Writer: Daniyal
🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merz just told Germans they can't maintain prosperity with 4-day weeks and work-life balance.
Brother, your economy is dying because you shut down nuclear plants, made energy unaffordable, drowned businesses in regulations, and let competitiveness collapse.
But sure. The problem is Germans want weekends.
Source: @Polymarket_Intel
🚨🇮🇶 BREAKING: EXPLOSION AT IRAQI MILITARY BASE RESULTS IN CASUALTIES
According to Iraqi security sources the explosion at Kalsu Hashd al-Shaabi military base in Iraq has left one dead and several injured.
Source: Ramallah Mix, Agence France-Presse
Footage: Unconfirmed
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