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   On Thu 21-Aug-2025  9:21a, Mike Powell@1:2320/105.0 said to Rob Mccart:   
      
   MP> While they are not a closed system in that they need to account for   
   MP> evaporation, don't many power plants (nuclear and some coal) have cooling   
   MP> towers to cool the water and presumably reuse it?   
      
   Evaporative cooling towers?  Yes, some water can be reused, but by their very   
   name, a vast quantity is lost into the atmosphere due evaporation. A Google   
   search says depending on the system between 1 and 30% is reused.     
      
   The shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, and I am sure other sea water,   
   and river fed plants did not use them either, as they were just discharged   
   back into their source.   
      
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