Marine Impact
- Fossil fuel and nuclear power plants are the nation's second largest user of water, consuming around 48.2 trillion gallons of water per year to produce steam to turn turbines.
- Drawing
water into a plant often kills fish and other aquatic organisms, and
the extensive array of cooling towers, ponds, and underwater vents used
by most plants to discharge excess heat have been documented to severely
damage aquatic environments by diminishing plankton and inducing
eutrophication.