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How many gallons of water are wasted daily to cool nuclear power plant?
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∙ 15y ago
The following answer applies to water used to cool the non-nuclear portion of the electricity generating cycle at a power plant, by far the largest use of water in any electrical plant that uses water for said cooling. Water used in the non-nuclear portion of the electrical generation cycle of a nuclear power plant is not wasted. It is drawn in from a reservoir, such as a river or bay, and then discharged back into the same reservoir essentially unchanged in every way except for being warmer than it was before. While this can cause serious problems with ecosystems downstream, the water was not wasted in any other sense. Ordinary power plants of the same electrical capacity as a nuclear power plant that use water in their cooling cycles will use essentially the same amount of water and warm it to the same degree as a nuclear power plant.
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