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Re:Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant by Retric on Monday April 17, 2023 @09:06PM (#35608736)
It is right next to the SHAWSA Water Filtration Plant which extracts water from Lake Michigan and couldn’t filter out any significant discharge.

The need to place nuclear near significant sources of water doesn’t mean that every large body of water is a good location.

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Re:Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant by maxerickson on Monday April 17, 2023 @10:03PM (#35609120)
Isn't it like 5 miles away?

That's fairly close, but it also ends up involving quite a large volume of water.

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Re:Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant by Retric on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @05:51AM (#35611915)
There’s a reason nuclear exclusion zones end up so large, nuclear waste is hazardous in minute doses.
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