Polluting cooling towers??

[stoel44]

I have i small detail that could easily get fixed en in my opinion should. And is that cooling towers in the game are polluting way to much. In real life the smoke of cooling towers is steam, which is not a pollutant. In cooling towers of a nuclear plant the steam can be a little bit radioactive but in such a small amount that when it is in the air it is not measurable. Now i am not talking about the plants itself but only the cooling towers.

[Silent_Shadow]

I think this is a byproduct of how they implemented pollution, namely that any particle effect emits pollution, but I could be wrong.

[CaPY]

In cooling towers of nuclear power plant NO WAY IN HELL water is radioactive. That is tertiary or secondary flow that water never even gets close to core.

Unless you're doing direct core cooling like good ol soviets nuclear powerplants that direct cooled core from lake. And that lake is the most radioactive place on earth today where bottom of lake was covered by concrete slabs to make it somewhat safer.

Modern nuclear power plant = 0 pollution from cooling towers
Soviet NPP = all the pollution from cooling towers

Take your pick!

[stoel44]

Originally posted by CaPY:

In cooling towers of nuclear power plant NO WAY IN HELL water is radioactive. That is tertiary or secondary flow that water never even gets close to core.

Unless you're doing direct core cooling like good ol soviets nuclear powerplants that direct cooled core from lake. And that lake is the most radioactive place on earth today where bottom of lake was covered by concrete slabs to make it somewhat safer.

Modern nuclear power plant = 0 pollution from cooling towers
Soviet NPP = all the pollution from cooling towers

Take your pick!

Well first Radiation is a different type of pollution then radiation in this game because it has its own category. The only thing coming out a cool tower is steam. Second you may right about the steam coming from towers i thought i have read that somewhere but i cannot find the source at the moment. So the steam may not have been radioactive. BTW i was not saying that the plant itself did not pollute because it did, i was only saying that the tower should not Pollute. My suggestion would be to keep the plant itself polluting but not the tower. It is the easiest solution because it would work perfectly for Coal/Gas Plants as well.

[CaPY]

If it's direct core cooling then water might be somewhat radioactive but regular pollution? Hell no!

[melkij]

Definitely should not be radioactive. If the nuclear power plant is made radioactive, then the level of radiation around the coal-fired power plant should be even higher (because IRL)

[Silent_Shadow]

Steam is not a pollutant, but the anti-fouling and anti-corrosion agents added to evaporation towers is when carried off by the steam. There is also the concentration of salts from evaporated water to deal with and apparently contaminates from the cooling tower itself are leeched into the water and carried out by the steam or "brine."

The amount of pollution it generates is still probably too much, but even with the cooling towers, nuclear power still produces far less pollution per MW than coal and gas do. Frankly I dislike it more how the cooling towers don't use large amounts of water, even if the nuclear plants use some (which would need it anyway to makeup for samples taken daily, especially if run through filtration first).

[gwahazar]

They should just change colour smoke to white, instead of gray.
It would be more realistic (it is condensed water steam) and pollution will be less significant (there should be pollution anyway, to avoid placing nuclear facility in the center of city, imagine that fear is also kind of pollution :)

[gonzaldd]

I agree with this, it should have a type of particle that emits little or no pollution, I am made a nuclear power plant that has forced draft towers, with 20 steam outlets, and, although he is using white smoke, it generates too much pollution for a cooling tower.

[stoel44]

Originally posted by Silent_Shadow:

Steam is not a pollutant, but the anti-fouling and anti-corrosion agents added to evaporation towers is when carried off by the steam. There is also the concentration of salts from evaporated water to deal with and apparently contaminates from the cooling tower itself are leeched into the water and carried out by the steam or "brine."

The amount of pollution it generates is still probably too much, but even with the cooling towers, nuclear power still produces far less pollution per MW than coal and gas do. Frankly I dislike it more how the cooling towers don't use large amounts of water, even if the nuclear plants use some (which would need it anyway to makeup for samples taken daily, especially if run through filtration first).

Good point they may pollute a tiny bit, but i still think that they should reduce it by 99% though. I 100% agree about the water, The nuclear power plants in the game should draw waaay more water then they do now.