Part of the problem may be EPA/TDEC regulations on overall river water temperature. Coal plants, nuclear plants, etc. are restricted on how much water used for cooling (that is subsequently heated) can be put back into the river. This is to keep from raising the overall water temp.

water drawn from a river to cool the reactor was too hot, a spokesman said

I've heard this before somewhere in my addled brain. But you have to think if water is too hot to cool nuclear reactors that it's too hot for anyone to be outside.

And some folks don't believe Al is telling the truth....

Pam Strickland

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut

Randy has it right. The river water is cool enough to cool the reactor cores but not cool enough to absorb the heated water that the plant pours back into the river without causing more harm than it normally does.

1. Worst drought in 118 years. Check.
2. Record high temps. Check.
3. Extreme flooding in places like Texas and England. Check.
4. Record arctic ice melt with a month of summer to go. Check.
5. Much more extreme weather in multiple places all the time. Check.

Climate change? Gosh, the media is kind of split and Gore has a high utility bill. I'm sure he just wants to win power and IPCC somehow just wants to get rich.

Nah, let's stay "skeptical." For now, of course.

Think I'll go out and sit in the car with the motor and A/C running on full.

Commie.

See,you guys are the problem. You need to get with the solution. Burn more coal and oil. Use more non-renewable resources. Help the economy!

I thought Factchecker was a New Urbanist...

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I don't know what that is. Guess I could "fact-check" it, but eh, whater-yagonnado?

This sounds ridiculous. What kind of river was that ... a thermal one?

Think I'll go out and sit in the car with the motor and A/C running on full.

Some of my coworkers actually do this during lunch hour on hot days. Guess they're also listening to Limberger, but I haven't gone pecking on any windows to find out. Whatchadoin' in there?

I know that they have trouble keeping the pool at the gym at 82 degrees, which is where most of us swimmers want it. I would think the normal river temp would be much lower this time of year.

But, are they talking about a collecting pool around the reactor and not the river?

I cannot imagine that the river is 90 degrees.

All the fish would die.