Palo Verde is the only nuclear energy facility in the world that uses treated sewage effluence for cooling water.
Due to its location in the Arizona desert, Palo Verde is the only nuclear generating facility in the world that is not located adjacent to a large body of water. Instead, it uses treated sewage from several nearby municipalities to meet its cooling water needs, recycling 20 billion US gallons (76,000,000 m³) of wastewater each year. At the nuclear plant site, the wastewater is further treated and stored in an 80 acre (324,000 m²) reservoir for use in the plant’s cooling towers.
As far as safety is concerned
In an Arizona Republic article dated February 22nd, 2007, it was announced that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had decided to place Palo Verde into Category 4, making it the most monitored nuclear power plant in the United States. The decision was made after the NRC discovered that electrical relays in a diesel generator did not function during tests in July and September of 2006.
The finding came as the “final straw” for the NRC, after Palo Verde had several citations over safety concerns and violations over the preceding years, starting with the finding of a ‘dry pipe’ in the plant’s emergency core-cooling system in 2004.
If thing leaks, you will be able to buy property real chaep in Feenix - once it stops glowing.....
PV is downstream (though upwind) of PHX.