It's not consumed. It's heated up a bit and returned to the water cycle. Not needed in Germany, but a 2 gigawatt nuclear plant can be hooked to a desalination

It's not consumed. It's heated up a bit and returned to the water cycle. Not needed in Germany, but a 2 gigawatt nuclear plant can be hooked to a desalination plant that can make a billion gallons of fresh water from the sea, per day. It was once considered to use these to make agro-industrial parks. I recently got an archival film on this topic digitized and posted it here along with a bunch of technical papers: https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2025-01-30-no-greater-challenge-nuclear-agro-industrial-complex-film.html https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2025-01-30-no-greater-challen...