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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (68046)	7/26/2006 11:13:11 AM
From: ChanceIs	Respond to of 206104

>>>Either that reactor is generating an incredible amount of waste heat or that river is very small.<<< This problem is not unique to nuclear plants. Any power plant running the Rankine cycle (most plants) condenses steam to liquid water so that it takes less work to pump the smaller (condensed) volume back up to the high pressure side. These plants have a theoretical thermal efficiency of roughly 30%. In '04 (I think) a number of coal plants around the lower Mississippi area were threatened with derating because of low water levels on the waterways. It gets very complicated because the fish and barge traffic need high water levels, and need them at a specific point in time. The fish are running on their breeding clocks. The barge folks want to be able to move cargo all the time. The coal plants want max water levels right about now for obvious reasons. I think the fish want high water in the mid spring.