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To: FreedomPoster

Those look more like helper CT’s designed more to draw in circ water discharge and cool it a bit before letting it go back into the river.


45 posted on 08/17/2007 7:26:24 AM PDT by nuke rocketeer
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To: nuke rocketeer; gondramB; Don W
Looks like you're right. Still, there are towers on-site, which was the original question. And lack of enough tower has got to be part of the reason for taking a unit off-line. If you scroll the map at my link a little, you can see where a 6th set of tower pads are at, with no towers in place. If that's still that way today, you know there are some execs wishing they'd bought those towers.

Under normal operation, BFN uses a once-through circulating water system to dissipate heat from the main turbine condensers. Water is drawn from the Tennessee River by the plant intake system and is discharged back to the river. In addition, BFN currently has four mechanical draft cooling towers which can be operated to assist in heat dissipation (helper mode) primarily during summer hot weather periods.

Excerpted from here.

50 posted on 08/17/2007 7:42:13 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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