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Re:Small modular reactors: Still too expensive, too slow, an... by cyberax on Friday May 31, 2024 @06:01PM (#40540779)
Power plants can be designed to work in hot deserts. The largest nuclear power plant in the US (Palo Verde in AZ) gets cooled by evaporating treated wastewater.

French nuclear power plants were just not designed for droughts.

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