THE CHEKING PROCESS – By rejecting the hot water used to cool the reactors, nuclear power plants “contribute to the warming of the Mediterranean Sea”, affirmed the leader of France Insoumise.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon definitely has a grudge against the energy produced by nuclear power plants in France. “It is criminal to give authorizations so that we reject in the water the part of water that we will have consumed to cool the plant“, judged the leader of France Insoumise during his speech to the activists gathered this weekend, in the Drôme, for the summer school of LFI.
The former presidential candidate explained his point by saying that these hot water discharges “contribute to the warming of the Mediterranean Sea“. Nuclear power plants actually require water to cool their reactors. They take it from the rivers and then return it downstream of the plant. Can they reallyto contributethus to the warming of the big blue?
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