Stumbled onto your post and looked at your reference material. First of all; if you search Matagorda Tax records you will notice that NRG pays $9 million a year in taxes. Next if you believe the reference material that has alarmed you,the two units now operating would be releasing 77,000,000 gallons per day of "primary cooling water" to the enviroment. Where do they get that amount of water to just throw away? Even if the part that is suppossedly returned to the reservoir can be reused, that still leaves 38,000,000 gallons/day released as steam. Where does all of this water come from? You can't use just any water in a primary system. It has to be demineralized so that it contains no impurities. The people writing the article you reference are just using scare tatics to sway the unimformed. Just ask yourself how something with a half-life ( the amount of time for 1/2 of an isotope to reduce to 1/2 of it's original activity) of 12.5 days be dangerous for 120-248 years? Not much in your reference material stands up to close scrutiny.
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Stumbled onto your post and looked at your reference material. First of all; if you search Matagorda Tax records you will notice that NRG pays $9 million a year in taxes. Next if you believe the reference material that has alarmed you,the two units now operating would be releasing 77,000,000 gallons per day of "primary cooling water" to the enviroment. Where do they get that amount of water to just throw away? Even if the part that is suppossedly returned to the reservoir can be reused, that still leaves 38,000,000 gallons/day released as steam. Where does all of this water come from? You can't use just any water in a primary system. It has to be demineralized so that it contains no impurities. The people writing the article you reference are just using scare tatics to sway the unimformed. Just ask yourself how something with a half-life ( the amount of time for 1/2 of an isotope to reduce to 1/2 of it's original activity) of 12.5 days be dangerous for 120-248 years? Not much in your reference material stands up to close scrutiny.