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Closed cycle steam generation plants aren't going to exhaust much. They can't filter seawater fast enough for use and you couldn't run seawater through those sy
by hindsightbias 5y ago
Closed cycle steam generation plants aren't going to exhaust much. They can't filter seawater fast enough for use and you couldn't run seawater through those systems w/o messing them up.
Wastewater is probably cooled before release.
- cryptonector 5y agoSubs must necessarily produce heat. That heat has to go into the surrounding (usually very cold) water. This is unavoidable. Those nuclear reactors are cooled with that surrounding water, though obviously through heat exchangers.
- postalrat 5y agoWouldn't cooling something with water warm up the water?
- hindsightbias 5y agoIf it sat still for hours and a shallow depth, thermodynamics is thermodynamics. Very different from the idea of passing tons of seawater through a reactor and dumping it out. It's not like a jet engine flying through the sky.