Elementl Power Developing Utility-Scale Advanced Nuclear Power Project in Southeast Ohio

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2. Don't forget

(Like fossil fuel power plants, and likely nuclear fusion plants) nuclear fision plants like this use tremendous amounts of water in their operation. (That’s why they are built next to rivers, lakes & oceans.) The water is used to cool the reactors (or looked at another way, the reactors heat the water) the iconic, steaming “cooling towers” people associate with nuclear reactors are also used by large coal plants.



Some of the heated water is released back into the body it was drawn from, giving the creatures living there a nice warm bath. The nuclear reactor boils water, to drive a turbine to generate electricity. The process is typically about ⅓ efficient, with most of the energy being lost as "waste heat".