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Droughts, wildfires continue to impact power plants in Europe
The effects of this summer’s historic heatwave continue to be felt across Europe. Soaring temperatures and drought in the region have led to elevated river temperatures, low river levels, and wildfires, which have significantly impacted nuclear power plants across the continent.
France’s Electricité de France has reported elevated river temperatures which have forced production cuts, including recent cuts at Golfech, and nuclear power plants in Hungary, Romania, and the United Kingdom, have faced exceptional challenges in recent days.
Mathematics & Computation (M&C) 2021 Speaker
Thomas M. Evans is a distinguished R&D staff member and the group leader of the HPC Methods for Nuclear Applications group in the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycles Division at ORNL. He has a PhD in nuclear engineering (1997) and MS in health physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in physics and astronomy (1992) from Haverford College, Pennsylvania. His research interests are in the areas of radiation and particle transport, linear and nonlinear solvers, algorithms and methods for HPC, and computational coupled physics simulation. He is currently the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Applications Development focus area deputy in charge of the energy applications portfolio.
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