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Diablo Canyon advocacy, Midwest nuclear legislation among April state news items
Pending, passed, and coveted legislation involving nuclear energy made their way across multiple state capitol buildings in the month of April. Here are a few notable updates from California, Iowa, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Sam E. Beall, Jr., G. Samuels
Nuclear Technology | Volume 12 | Number 1 | September 1971 | Pages 12-17
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A15892
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The possibility of using warm water from power stations to control the temperature of plant and animal enclosures is examined. With the heat from a nuclear station such as the 330-MW(electric) gas-cooled reactor being built near Denver, Colorado, it appears that a good fraction of the fresh vegetable, poultry, and pork needs of a large city could be produced in a growing area near the power station, and that the profit incentive is high to both the grower and the utility.