Re: "POLLUTION FREE"

[BFLOOD@SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Bob Flood)]

>Excuse me, but what about thermal pollution?  I don't know much about 
>nuclear power, but aren't large amounts of water needed for cooling 
>purposes with resulting elevation of temperature in the receiving 
>waters?  Temperature changes can cause population changes in various 
>organisms, from microbes on up.

That's what those hypersymbolic cooling towers are for. Plants must cool the
water to a site-specific temperature range before releasing it back to the
source (river, lake, etc.). Interesting during a heat wave when the river
temp is well above the allowed release temp, thus requiring nuclear plants
to become water-cooling systems.
Bob Flood
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