Our water from the river is already being taken over by San Antonio north of us and nuke plants use HUGE amounts of water.
Do you want one in your backyard? I did a Google a few months ago and there are many more accidents at these plants than most people are aware of!
Got one. It's called Commanche Peak. I frikkin LOVE it.
Next question?
The number of deaths related to nuclear plant accidents in the U.S. is exactly ZERO! A far better record than any other industry in the country.
Maybe you prefer to live in the dark?
Nuclear plants use a great deal of water for cooling, but they don't use it up. It's discharged back in a couple hundred feet downstream at a higher temperature.
In an ideal world I wouldn't want anything in my backyard. But when the alternative is burning a billion - literally, billion with a B - tons of coal a year and releasing tens of thousands of tons of NOx, SO2, etc. that isn't even a decision.
Every day we sit on our collective hands arguing about whether nuclear is a good enough solution is another day of using the dirtiest and most dangerous power source there is by default.
Most of which goes right back to the river, only a few degrees warmer.
"Do you want one in your backyard? I did a Google a few months ago and there are many more accidents at these plants than most people are aware of!"
I'd LOVE to have one in my backyard. Most of the "accidents" are hyped-up by anti-nuke propagandists posing as reporters.
In my backyard? No.
But a few miles down the road (so I don’t have to look at it)? Hell yeah.