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Thank you.
Mary Anne — (archived)

That's why it's news when it happens once in a while.

In some cases, nuclear plants reduce the amount of radioactivity in their immediate surrounding environment. I'm thinking of a particular plant that's downstream from a medical facility. Once radioactive material has been sent through a patient, the rules for its storage and release change, and so the treated human waste released into the river is hotter than the usual river water. The nuke plant has to clean up the water before it can be used in normal cooling and power generation to coincide with the standards for released water from the plant. I can't name names because the medical facility got mad and made threats when the nuke station began to point this out to their antinuke critics.

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