• Ooops@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    This is to avoid overheating river

    You make this sound like they do it for laughs and giggles and it’s optional, not because increasing the temperature in already hot bodies of water even more literally kills wildlife.

    • fullsquare@awful.systems
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      Plenty of thermal powerplants use cooling towers and don’t have this problem, this is not a limitation of NPP