How does a cooling tower work?

Learn about the workings of the Hope Creek cooling tower

[@Monsoozi]

Always wondered how the cloud machine worked!

[@aresinterceptor]

Its 2 am and it's perfect time to learn how cooling towers work!

[@hotdogy12345]

12am for me 😂

[@smhaceofspades2813]

​@@hotdogy123451130pm for me as I walk around work at night

[@wiliam4294]

Haha

[@theofficialgreenkane9645]

4am for me 😂 Damnit, idk how this always happens

[@wiliam4294]

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[@bananafoneable]

I had no idea... I thought it was dangerous. It's literally just water vaper

[@shawnganske8731]

Funny how nuclear energy is just a fancy version of steam power lol, i feel cheated!

[@SubVet84]

It 100% is steam power. It just using a more expensive and more efficient fuel source. This is how it was explained in the submarine service when describing how it provides power and propulsion, “Hot rock make steam, steam make go.”

[@rpungello]

the majority of power generation is just variations on boiling water to make steam to spin a turbine.

[@TheClumsyChicken]

Thanks you saved my grades

[@anatoliisamoilenko7390]

Thank you

[@SubVet84]

My submarine didn’t have a cooling tower. If you’re already using the river, why not skip the cooling tower?

[@DavidKohout]

Efficiency probably

[@mattharper588]

If it is not a big enough body of water you do not want to discharge hot water into it because it is not good for the environment and aquatic life

[@Bdigi2012]

They pump moisture into the atmosphere one component of weather manufacturing

[@Moneygrip]

Ah so it is an evaporative cooler

[@nalo1728]

started youtube with watching wildnout . now im here 4 hrs later . i need to sleep now it's 3am

[@cookie5310]

Came here after watching gio_masters jump into one 💀

[@TheDaveRout]

I’ve ever understood why they dont put the hot water back through the system rather than heating from cold again

[@ayeklutch]

The water that is cooled by the tower doesn't actually go into the reactor. It is pumped to a tank to surround a convoluted pipe that has hot steam in it so the steam inside the pipe system can condense to liquid water which is actually trapped inside the reactor and doesn't evaporate or anything. They basically use water to cool more water inside pipes

[@youtubeaccount6539]

People are so dramatic about these

[@rouchar]

People are mostly idiots, so... 😛

[@jaybling9475]

Why don't they put the hot water from the condenser back into the river?

[@babyapple_]

the fish gonna die

[@mattharper588]

If it’s not a big enough body of water you do not want to discharge hot water back into it because it will harm the environment and aquatic life edit power plants that are built around the oceans and the Great Lakes discharge back into the source because it will not have a inverse effect on the body of water

[@sarikabhutte6186]

Ooh 😲

[@the4kcameraman]

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[@horizontal120]

can't the hot water be used in some better more efficient way ???

[@whiskeywight7844]

I mean probably, but it'll just rain back down into the same body of water again so it doesn't really matter.

[@gugagalo]

So radioactive cannot go through pipe? Interesting. Edit : maybe they use lead pipe

[@ayeklutch]

The water that is heated is sealed in pipes, which this water cools

[@Subuzy]

why not just just put more turbines in the tower to capture the rising energy🤔 edit: the energy from mass amouts of steam rising

[@ayeklutch]

It will impede with the working of the system

[@Tommythegamerlad]

I love nuclear power

[@osevenninefiver]

The housing itself could be re-fitted to generate enough energy without the uranium because of the resonance and size of the cavity as well as tall enough and heavy enough on ita own to provide energy. There's no turbine in the cooling tower, which proves that the engineers are just wasting their time and half-assed to emplore you to believe there isn't enough to go around.

[@ugotdusted]

When I was 5 I called the cloud makers 💀💀💀

[@jonashagstrom4664]

Seems like it is a waste of energy. Why not harvest the heat?

[@takashitamagawa5881]

One could imagine the heated water being used to heat homes and provide them hot water, at least for moderately to densely populated regions. But the infrastructure would need to be put in place.

[@MaryStewart]

steam turban! only in Indian plants.

[@Ag89q43G0HyA]

is that water radioactive??'

[@mpk6664]

no

[@analogadam795]

The cloud is steam from the cooling water from the nearby river. Its only use was for indirectly cooling down the engines.

[@samuelwoolwineiv7886]

Not at all

[@jadnouri9782]

No .. the radio active water in the turbines doesn't get mixed with cooling water.

[@kilovolt2494]

it's a second circuit of water, so no.

[@victorvaca7429]

Its not indian, it doesnt have a turban

[@pplett8238]

Seems very inefficient.

[@NavinF]

How so? Evaporative cooling is dirt cheap, you just need to power the pumps

[@kokamzy2967]

wait untill you find out hundreds of meters deep coal mining sites just for half of this things power

[@derekeliopoulos2670]

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