Thermal discharges from the Savannah River Plant
The nuclear production reactors at the AEC's Savannah River Plant, located by siting requirements, utilize on-site natural watercourses, swamps, and cooling water impoundments to dissipate heat in effluent cooling water. Stream-swamp cooling is the most efficient and economical cooling mechanism available to the two reactors presently using this method of heat dissipation. The effects on the Savannah River of high temperature water discharged from the reactors are thus minimized, and detrimental environmental consequences are confined to the plantsite. A large cooling water impoundment, which is currently being used to dissipate heat from one reactor, has furnished an extensive area for biological research into the effects on the aquatic community resulting from its varied thermal conditions.
- Research Organization:
- Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-76SR00001
- OSTI ID:
- 6834765
- Report Number(s):
- DPST-72-428; ON: DE84013157
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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