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I have never understood why the electrical supply for nuclear power
plants must come from off-site grid. Yes, in general, run them on the
off-site grid, but allow the possibility to shift to local generation
rather than depending on diesel generators which get scheduled, but
short term testing. From what I've read, the diesels operated for
about an hour, then failed. Yeah, that's not surprising when they've
never been run for over an hour.
With the ability to shift to on-site generation (and I certainly
don't fully understand all the details of grid sync, etc, but it's
not an impossible shift to design), off-site grid failure still has 2
backups: diesel and on-site. The decay heat alone should generate
enough steam to run coolant pumps.
Am I missing something here?