[Herakles]

“Addingt the amount of acre feet of water necessary to feed the reactor”

Reactor 101 - you are not “going to feed the reactor water”; you will be using it for cooling and there are various methods not to steam the water in a cooling tower; and I doubt they would use a cooling tower there anyway.

It’s just another solvable engineering problem, and the water is not going to “disappear” or be eaten by the big bad reactor.

[Jeff Head]

I know that...in essence, by cooling it, your are feeding it. It cannot produce electricity without the cooling water.

[Jeff Head]

In addition...no one I know has called it the "big bad reactor". You are making a judgement about the people here. I worked for years for Bechtel Power Copr on San Onofre and later the South Texas Nuclear Project. I now work for the Bureau of Reclamation in the hydro electric area.

The water to cool the reactors would have to be divertted away from the irrigation canals given the current reserves in the lakes above it. Or another source has to be developed. The irrigation water does not return to the river.

So, as my first post indicated, they will have to develop anothyer supply...which is doable, but is also an issue.