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Well, it's 35 miles from our winter home in the Phoenix metro area in the middle of the Sonoran desert.
The plant is totally cooled by "waste" water from the surrounding communities.
Every time we flush the toilet we're cooling the reactor.
Its been helping crank our air conditioner and heat our pool since 1988 without incident.
https://www.maricopa.gov/1002/PVGS#:~:text=Palo%20Verde%20Generating%20Station%20(PVGS,the%20community%20of%20Wintersburg%2C%20Arizona.
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