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Old 09-05-2005, 09:26 AM  
Nysus
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Originally Posted by QualityMpegs
We have one right by us...looks just like that. It is entirely steam. Clean burning coal I guess.
It's steam from the cooling system; they need large amounts of water I believe to cool the reactors as they produce a large amount of heat... and would otherwise meltdown (literally melt, and release radiation) - which I'm sure everyone's heard of.

Homer saved Springfield from a meltdown once.

Matt
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