I love how you somehow think you've made a great point here?
Haha they're just boiling water!
Stupid steam turbines and their 90% "efficiency", take that!
Cooling tower based nuclear power plants do not require an enormous amount of water because they primarily use air cooling. I think you're thinking of the few plants that use direct water cooling for temperature control, they typically are next to the sea and pump in tons of water for the purpose. This method, although cheap, is increasingly looked down upon because it causes lots of thermal pollution that disrupts nearby sea life not used to temperatures that high. Also of course being next to the sea makes any nuclear accident that could happen potentially worse and more disastrous. Not worth saving the costs of building those cooling towers at all.
FYI everything that is true about the cooling system of nuclear power plants here is also true about fossil fuel plants. Because those *also* use steam turbines and need a lot of cooling too. They are just rarely at a large enough scale that they require the large cooling towers nuclear plants are famous for.
Let me guess, you are from California? The nuclear plants that use tons of seawater I mentioned previously are mostly located in California.
You have to realize that not every nuclear power plant is a costally located saltwater cooled power plant. Surprising as it may seem, most of the world is not California.
"On a gallon per megawatt-hour basis, nuclear energy currently uses slightly more water than comparable fossil-fired plants, in both the once-through cooling mode and the closed-cycle cooling mode."
https://www.energy.gov/ne/downloads/...r-power-plants
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