I once went on a tour through a nuclear power plant and the cooling tower was the one place where you could really get an idea of how much energy is being produ

I once went on a tour through a nuclear power plant and the cooling tower was the one place where you could really get an idea of how much energy is being produced there. You could feel the draft about 100m away and once you were inside it was overpowering. I mean we saw the turbines, power transformes the spent fuel pool and the reactor hull and everything. But there you did not really get the right impression, as opposed to standing inside a tower which produces clouds which you can see from more than 50km away.