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I visited brazillian nuclear plants. They on purpose built them near the ocean, so they can just pump water inside it, and then throw back the hot water in the
by speeder 13y ago
I visited brazillian nuclear plants.
They on purpose built them near the ocean, so they can just pump water inside it, and then throw back the hot water in the ocean, yet the heat is so big that it still heats up by half a degree one square kilometer of ocean or something like that.
I doubt it is feasible with a man-made pool of water.
But at least, they don't repeat fukushima stupidity of leaving the fuel rods on the ceiling (here the fuel rods are moved to a special building in a hill nearby).
- chiph 13y agoThe Shearon Harris reactor in North Carolina has a man-made lake for it's cooling. The water in there is slightly warmer than ambient temperatures. I believe one of the reasons not to add any additional reactors (when the NRC made additional licenses available a few years ago) was because they'd have to significantly increase the water acreage and the utility didn't have the land for it.