I have to disagree with the sense of putting someone else's garbage dump outside of where they live. We live rural by choice and have experienced in the past power companies coming in and generating large amounts of power and pollution without benefit to the local community.
The world economy is like that, In the US we enjoy the cheaper goods but don't have to pay for the dust and pollution, it is all invisible to us consumers. We don't have the mines or "dirty" industries for the elemental ingredients that make up our society.
Hitting on China, they have some virtual slave workers, much of it based on religion.
Anytime we are releasing energy to be used as work there are changes to the environment around us.
I doubt if there is any industry that operates without consumption of water. It is a red herring in the big picture.
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Originally Posted by Hersbird
In the US it makes more sense to put the reactors far away from populated areas. There wouldn't be enough homes in a radius around the power plant to justify the hot water. Plus water doesn't have to be "used" at a power plant meaning there is no waste. It all just gets continously recycled back through the steam generators. You don't want to remove much of the heat, just enough to condense the steam back into water so it can be pumped again back into the steam generators. The hotter it stays the easier it is to make steam again.
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