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Update on Use of Mine Pool Water for Power Generation

This report provides an update on a 2003 Argonne report that evaluated the use of ground water from underground coal mines as cooling water in power plants. The most significant example of mine pool water use is at a nuclear power plant in southeastern Pennsylvania, Their pilot program for using mine pool water continues in 2006. The report contains photographs of several of the facilities that use mine pool water.

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Veil, J.A. and M.G. Puder, 2006, Update on Use of Mine Pool Water for Power Generation, ANL/EVS/R-06/6, prepared by the Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, September
ANL/EVS/R-06/6

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 Report

Publication Year

 2006
                                                                                                                                                                                            

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