¿Apagón en Europa? Por qué la ola de calor récord está apagando las centrales nucleares

Blackout in Europe? Why the Record Heatwave Is Shutting Down Nuclear Power Plants Why has the thermometer ceased to be a simple weather indicator and become a threat to Europe's national security? In this video, we explain how June—the hottest ever recorded globally and in Western Europe—has gone from being a meteorological phenomenon to a national crisis threatening the continent's economy, health, and electricity grid. The World Health Organization (WHO) has released an alarming figure: the extreme heat has caused more than 1,300 additional deaths in a single week in Europe. We explain the data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the conclusions of the World Weather Attribution scientific network, which asserts that this heatwave would have been completely impossible 50 years ago without the impact of climate change. The real systemic danger is striking at the very heart of Europe's energy infrastructure. France, the continent's electricity powerhouse, is struggling to cool its nuclear power plants with water from the Rhône and Garonne rivers, whose temperatures are excessively high. We show you how this phenomenon reduces electricity production, strains regional supply, and drives up electricity prices, exacerbating an energy crisis the continent was already experiencing due to the war in Ukraine. In Spain, the impact translates into suffocating water stress. Reservoirs are at critically low levels, the risk of forest fires is skyrocketing, and the demand for electricity for cooling has reached its highest level in 45 years. It's a critical scenario where the lack of water reduces hydroelectric power just when citizens need the most electricity to run their air conditioning. Defense and geopolitics analysts from the think tank DEF warn of a dangerous cycle: the same heat wave that drives up electricity consumption simultaneously destroys the capacity to generate energy. This exact combination of factors has already caused serious economic crises in the past, such as Argentina's in 2001. To make matters worse, scientists warn that the El Niño phenomenon is rapidly intensifying and, although it has been minor this year, it threatens to unleash even more severe heat waves next year. #Europe #Blackout #Heatwave #Nuclear #NuclearPowerPlant #Spain #France #Energy #WHO #Deaths #Geopolitics #Intereconomia 📻 You can listen to Radio Intereconomía live on our website: ►https://intereconomia.com/radio/ 🎧 Also on Ivoox ► https://www.ivoox.com/escuchar-online... 🖱 Follow the conversation on social media: 🎞Facebook ►   / radiointerec.  . ✍Twitter ►   / rintereconomia