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Growing Opposition to Once-Through Cooling of Nuclear Plants

"Environmental agencies in New Jersey and New York are demanding that power plants in their states, which use huge amounts of water, change their water cooling systems from "once-through" to a "closed circuit" technology. Old systems take water directly from rivers and spew it back out after it has cooled the machinery." - excerpt from the Atlantic CoastWatch newsletter, Dec. 2010-Jan. 2011 issue. Read more.

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