Also, you can cool a nuclear reactor with ocean water. Seabrook Station in NH is cooled this way, as are other reactors located on ocean coasts, presumably.
Progress Energy's Brunswick Nuclear Plant[1] in Southport, NC takes brackish water from near the mouth of the Cape Fear River as it's source of cooling water, then discharges it through a canal back into the Atlantic Ocean.
Progress Energy's Brunswick Nuclear Plant[1] in Southport, NC takes brackish water from near the mouth of the Cape Fear River as it's source of cooling water, then discharges it through a canal back into the Atlantic Ocean.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Nuclear_Generating_St...