• fullsquare@awful.systems
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    This is to avoid overheating river, seashore powerplants or those that rely on evaporative cooling towers don’t have this problem. Also, it’s as good time for maintenance as any other, and they still exported loads of electricity the entire time

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      This is to avoid overheating river

      You make this sound like they do it for laughs and giggles and it’s optional, not because increasing the temperature in already hot bodies of water even more literally kills wildlife.

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        Plenty of thermal powerplants use cooling towers and don’t have this problem, this is not a limitation of NPP