There is at least one (I would say rather nice looking!) nuclear power plant that was build in arid climate & is cooled by evaporating treated waste water: htt

There is at least one (I would say rather nice looking!) nuclear power plant that was build in arid climate & is cooled by evaporating treated waste water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_... Also you can reduce the heating requirements to use some of the waste heat for district heating. Modern heating pipelines have negligible losses even over dozens of kilometers, you you can heat even quite distant cities. Such a project is now in the works here in Brno: https://energycentral.com/news/czech-nuclear-plant-dukovany-supply-brno-district-heating-0 https://energycentral.com/news/czech-nuclear-plant-dukovany-... Though its just an older project that has finally been restarted: https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:13700211 https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:13700211 https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:20085810 https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:20085810