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Call me cynical but I do think an outlet called oil price dot com may not be entirely impartial when they report on this. That is not to say what they wrote here is wrong; I wouldn't know. It just has a touch of pot and kettle about it.
Since the power networks are linked and European countries import and export electricity, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that next to renewables power from gas stepped in to fill the nuclear gap. And the price for natural gas is often linked to a certain other commodity price.
Several nuclear reactors had to shut down because there was not enough water for cooling.
In France, Hungary, Romania
Reactors in France are shut down not because of lack of water, but as an ecological precaution because the effects of warming up rivers even more is not well known (even if it seems to have not much more impact than the heat wave in itself )
And even with these reactors shut down, France still exported 5-10GW of power at the time.
So yeah let's not propagate the anti-nuclear propaganda trying to paint the situation as "nuclear can't handle global warming and will cause blackouts", when in reality it's just us having so much decarbonated electricity that we can afford to produce less as an ecological precaution.
In France, sure. In Hungary the water level actually dropped below the intake valves so they physically couldn't pump enough water into the reactor.