That is blatantly false. Nuclear reactors have extremely malleable “Operational Flexibility”, and operators have the ability to change the amount of energy generation in as little as under an hour in order to meet the eb and flow of daily and seasonal energy requirements. This is how reactors have operated for decades at this point, as it is extremely valuable to be able to change energy generation, as why would you burn needless energy when no one is using it?
All that it requires is that a reactor can accurately forecast and plan for when such energy requirements will occur, but with any sort of central planning this can be done easily.
That is the entire point of the anti-neutrino control rods. When a reactor operator wants produce less energy, you simply lower more rods into the reactor to stifle the reaction and slow the “burn” of the nuclear fuel, and when you want more energy you remove additional rods. Further, steam can be vented back through the system and away from turbines which also reduces wear on the system when less energy is required.
On the other hand, battery systems are extremely inefficient, and degrade quickly, along with requiring an absurd amount of space and material to store just a little energy, further that energy quickly dissipates if not used relatively quickly. Further, the sheer amount of rare materials that batteries requires make them not very economical for any sort of large scale usage.
We still need renewables, but their energy should be for short term consumption, not for storage.
This is a TLDR:
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/3-ways-nuclear-more-flexible-you-might-think#:~:text=Operational Flexibility,to meet certain grid demands.
This is the extremely massive manuals if you have any interest in reading them.
https://www.iaea.org/publications/11104/non-baseload-operation-in-nuclear-power-plants-load-following-and-frequency-control-modes-of-flexible-operation
That is blatantly false. Nuclear reactors have extremely malleable “Operational Flexibility”, and operators have the ability to change the amount of energy generation in as little as under an hour in order to meet the eb and flow of daily and seasonal energy requirements. This is how reactors have operated for decades at this point, as it is extremely valuable to be able to change energy generation, as why would you burn needless energy when no one is using it?
All that it requires is that a reactor can accurately forecast and plan for when such energy requirements will occur, but with any sort of central planning this can be done easily.
That is the entire point of the anti-neutrino control rods. When a reactor operator wants produce less energy, you simply lower more rods into the reactor to stifle the reaction and slow the “burn” of the nuclear fuel, and when you want more energy you remove additional rods. Further, steam can be vented back through the system and away from turbines which also reduces wear on the system when less energy is required.
On the other hand, battery systems are extremely inefficient, and degrade quickly, along with requiring an absurd amount of space and material to store just a little energy, further that energy quickly dissipates if not used relatively quickly. Further, the sheer amount of rare materials that batteries requires make them not very economical for any sort of large scale usage.
We still need renewables, but their energy should be for short term consumption, not for storage.