Arizona nuclear plant seeking alternative source of water (uses 65 million gallons of treated wastewater every day)

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Associated Press | May 8, 2022

PHOENIX – The largest nuclear power plant in the U.S. is still looking for an alternative water source after scuttling plans to pump brackish groundwater west of Phoenix it first pursued in 2019. The Palo Verde Generating Station is the only nuclear plant in the world not adjacent to a large body of water to cool the plant. Instead, it uses reclaimed water piped more than 35 miles across the desert. That water is getting more expensive...

The plant uses about 65 million gallons of treated wastewater every day – more than 23 billion gallons a year – to generate electricity...more
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/arizona-nuclear-plant-seeking-alternative-source-of-water/article_eaa22cc5-2c54-56c8-8640-79c75dbc6be1.html

65 million gallons of treated wastewater every day is quite a bit of water every day - for a desert.

Trivia: There are 22 Liters of Hydrogen in one Tablespoon of water.

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1. I said it before...

We need to build another nuclear plant at the mouth of the Colorado river near Yuma.

Only this plant is not for people. It is for the really long intake pipe that extends into the Gulf of California, desalinates the salt water ( ask Israel how to build a massive plant ) and pump it uphill to Lake Mead using a large set of water pumps ( ask California how to do that ).

Fill Lake Mead... and use the CAP to pipe the fresh water to Phoenix... and as it passes just north of the Palo Verde Generating Station, dump some water there for the nuclear plants.

It's a massive engineering project... but there are no other plans that I can think of.