Some consevatives are blaming the failure of wind and solar power, despite the fact that coal and oil were a larger factor in the decrease of energy, thanks to pipes freezing
28% of Texas energy is produced by renewable sources. Out of that, only about 6% actually failed. The failure of other energy sources was a larger contributing factor than the failure green energy. Shutdowns at natural gas and coal plants thanks to equipment issues.
Also, you can survive with less than 80% of a functional circulatory system, depending on the 20% that's missing. Take the heart and you're a bit screwed, but lop off the arms and legs and you'll still have about 56% left, and still be able to function.
Yeah, like a nuke plant that failed because a safety sensor was frozen?
You *could* survive with 80 percent of your circulatory system. But plenty are killed when less than that is damaged or destroyed.
the system systems of nuclear plants make it so that even in the case of a full failure a melt down basically isn't possible at a level that affects basically anything outside the plant itself
its far harder to knock a nuclear plant out of service than it is to knock any other type of power generation out of service, example, during hurricane florance in 2018 only one nuclear plant in the affected region shut down and they did it preemptively as per their sites protocols, all other plants in the affected regions continued to run and didnt see any noticeable drop in power supply during the entire hurricane.
A more "related to the current cold weather" example, winter storm juno in 2015 was a full on blizzard. 23 out of 24 of the regions nuclear plants continued to function at 100% power output during the entire event, the 24th shut down not because of anything with the nuclear plant but because the electrical transmission systems outside the plant were damaged. Nuclear power would not have cared about whats going on recently.
You *could* survive with 80 percent of your circulatory system. But plenty are killed when less than that is damaged or destroyed.
A more "related to the current cold weather" example, winter storm juno in 2015 was a full on blizzard. 23 out of 24 of the regions nuclear plants continued to function at 100% power output during the entire event, the 24th shut down not because of anything with the nuclear plant but because the electrical transmission systems outside the plant were damaged. Nuclear power would not have cared about whats going on recently.