Hot water kills half of Columbia River sockeye salmon

[AtheistCrusader]

132. You're just spewing nonsense.

The cooling capacity of a coal and nuclear fired boiler of the same wattage output are similar. VERY similar. That's not circular.

The mode of failure between a nuclear reactor's core, and a coal boiler don't speak to the cooling water requirements at all. Not even a little bit.

You know what the word 'concentration' means right? The pile of a reactor is smaller than the burners of a coal plant. That doesn't mean the total heat is different.

Reactors aren't sized for fun, they are sized to meet demand. If you want to reduce the cooling water requirements, changing the generator type does nothing. Because you'd still build the coal plant to the same capacity. It would need pretty much the same amount of water because it has the same waste heat to deal with.

A meltdown of a reactor core doesn't mean the total heat under normal operation is any different. Chernobyl was rated at 1gw thermal output. When it went supercritical, it was pumping out north of 30gw thermal before the instrumentation failed and it exploded. That's not normal operation, and not something the cooling system of the plant was EVER designed to cope with.

You're just being fucking silly hoping to score some stupid point. Knock it off.