Without knowing any of the details of their nuke plant, I'm going to speculate that the nuke portion of it wasn't the problem, but more than likely balance-of-plant issues. Not saying that excuses it, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong to cause even a conventional generating unit to have to shut down, much of it having very little to do directly with power generation. I would imaging a nuke plant is even more susceptible in that regard for "abundance of caution" (I hate that phrase) reasons if nothing else.
That's all well and good but the fact that a fucking nuclear reactor had to be partially shut down due to cold is in fact laughable.
Everyone on ERCOT needs to be flogged right next to Ted Cruz.
Without knowing any of the details of their nuke plant, I'm going to speculate that the nuke portion of it wasn't the problem, but more than likely balance-of-plant issues. Not saying that excuses it, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong to cause even a conventional generating unit to have to shut down, much of it having very little to do directly with power generation. I would imaging a nuke plant is even more susceptible in that regard for "abundance of caution" (I hate that phrase) reasons if nothing else.