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Do you know for sure that it's a nuclear plant in the picture? I'm asking because those iconic cooling towers are also used for coal plants. > The hyperboloid

Do you know for sure that it's a nuclear plant in the picture? I'm asking because those iconic cooling towers are also used for coal plants. > The hyperboloid cooling towers are often associated with nuclear power plants,[1] although they are also used in some coal-fired plants and to some extent in some large chemical and other industrial plants. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower Direct link to the picture from the article https://www.unenvironment.org/sites/default/files/styles/article_billboard_image/public/2018-10/2010-10-Air%20pollution-CHINA-USA-CLIMATE.jpg https://www.unenvironment.org/sites/default/files/styles/art... Example cooling towers from a coal-fired power plant https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-eon-scholven-power-station-coal-fired-power-plant-cooling-towers-gelsenkirchen-89211541.html https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-eon-scholven-power-station...

maccard 8y ago
And just to show what a nuclear plant can look like, [0] is a few miles away from me, and looks like [1] [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station#/media/File:Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station_-_April_2016.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station#...
- rcMgD2BwE72F 8y ago
  It also looks like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station_Accident_18th_April_2017.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torness_Nuclear_Powe... :)
- astrodust 8y ago
  Some of these plants use a local source of water for cooling, not the traditional cooling towers. If it's inland or starved for water you need cooling towers.
khuey 8y ago
Even if it's not a nuclear power plant it's still a cooling tower releasing only water vapor.
- StavrosK 8y ago
  Some new designs release both water vapor and other gases in the same tower, but yeah, those look like cooling towers releasing just vapor.
- Brakenshire 8y ago
  It's a picture of a power station, the cooling towers are just the most noticeable feature.
Brakenshire 8y ago
The same picture is used to illustrate a coal power station elsewhere: https://international.thenewslens.com/article/81575 https://international.thenewslens.com/article/81575 It seems to be a coal station in China.

maccard 8y ago

And just to show what a nuclear plant can look like, [0] is a few miles away from me, and looks like [1] [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station#/media/File:Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station_-_April_2016.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station#...

rcMgD2BwE72F 8y ago
It also looks like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torness_Nuclear_Power_Station_Accident_18th_April_2017.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torness_Nuclear_Powe... :)
astrodust 8y ago
Some of these plants use a local source of water for cooling, not the traditional cooling towers. If it's inland or starved for water you need cooling towers.

khuey 8y ago

Even if it's not a nuclear power plant it's still a cooling tower releasing only water vapor.

StavrosK 8y ago
Some new designs release both water vapor and other gases in the same tower, but yeah, those look like cooling towers releasing just vapor.
Brakenshire 8y ago
It's a picture of a power station, the cooling towers are just the most noticeable feature.

Brakenshire 8y ago

The same picture is used to illustrate a coal power station elsewhere: https://international.thenewslens.com/article/81575 https://international.thenewslens.com/article/81575 It seems to be a coal station in China.