• btsax@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Fossil plants, not really. The hard part for them is getting them started again which can take hours. But disconnecting them suddenly won’t hurt them. There are many layers of protective devices keeping them from overspeed events.

    Nuclear plants are similar but they will continue generating heat long after they are disconnected from the grid and you have to have a plan for removing that heat or bad things will happen. This was what caused problems at Fukushima.