Re:Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic i...
by pyrale on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:22AM
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> There needs to be water AND it needs to be cool. There is no nuclear power without water cooling.
The water doesn't really need to be cool, it can also be used in cooling towers, which means you don't have to put it back into the stream, and therefore you don't care about water temperature. The issue with river water is that we currently don't have enough to divert it for all our needs, be it for a nuclear plant, for irrigation or for drinking.
This winter and spring have been exceptionally dry in France, with slightly more than half the rain we usually get.
The water doesn't really need to be cool, it can also be used in cooling towers, which means you don't have to put it back into the stream, and therefore you don't care about water temperature. The issue with river water is that we currently don't have enough to divert it for all our needs, be it for a nuclear plant, for irrigation or for drinking.
This winter and spring have been exceptionally dry in France, with slightly more than half the rain we usually get.