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To: Elsewhere who wrote (7986)	9/15/2003 2:05:51 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) of 793834

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 cnn.com France exempted its nuclear power stations from rules protecting rivers on Monday to help them meet surging demand for electricity from homes and businesses hit by weeks of sweltering heat. This means the 58 plants can put the water they use back into rivers at higher temperatures than usually allowed -- a step that was agreed to in a bid to stave off power blackouts. FRANCE: August 13, 2003 planetark.org Nuclear power operators have angered environmentalists by allowing plants to pump back hotter water into rivers than normally permitted after a cooling process essential to the reactors' operation. But a leading German utility could not rule out eventual blackouts. "We don't want to circulate the idea of stoppages so as not to cause overreactions but we cannot exclude power cuts if the situation continues to worsen," said Petra Woellmer, spokeswoman for EnBW, but said she thought the scenario unlikely.

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