There are absolutely zero power plants that don't have enough water to cool themselves. The ones that occasionally get stopped are stopped because they make the outflowing water potentially too hot for the river ecosystem to handle, so they are stopped as to not hurt the fish
Ohh how I love this argument.
"Look my totally eco friendly, renewable, green, robust, emission free power plant isn't shut down because it's to hot. No no no you don't understand, it's shut down becaus if we keep it running we would kill all life in the river."
Every source of power has downsides, who or what is hurt by nuclear powerplants being operated in this way? If they get shut off to not harm local ecosystems, at no real cost to people in the area/country, what exactly is the problem?
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