Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device for cooling the water used in a steam-condenser or refrigerating-plant.
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- noun Attributive form of
cooling tower
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Examples
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As the eponymous movie from 2000 chronicled, hexavalent chromium dissolved from cooling-tower wastewater at a Pacific Gas & Electric facility leached into the groundwater beneath the town of Hinkley
Bill Chameides: The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies Bill Chameides 2011
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As the eponymous movie from 2000 chronicled, hexavalent chromium dissolved from cooling-tower wastewater at a Pacific Gas & Electric facility leached into the groundwater beneath the town of Hinkley
Bill Chameides: The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies Bill Chameides 2011
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As the eponymous movie from 2000 chronicled, hexavalent chromium dissolved from cooling-tower wastewater at a Pacific Gas & Electric facility leached into the groundwater beneath the town of Hinkley
Bill Chameides: The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies Bill Chameides 2011
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As the eponymous movie from 2000 chronicled, hexavalent chromium dissolved from cooling-tower wastewater at a Pacific Gas & Electric facility leached into the groundwater beneath the town of Hinkley
Bill Chameides: The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies Bill Chameides 2011
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As the eponymous movie from 2000 chronicled, hexavalent chromium dissolved from cooling-tower wastewater at a Pacific Gas & Electric facility leached into the groundwater beneath the town of Hinkley
Bill Chameides: The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies Bill Chameides 2011
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As the eponymous movie from 2000 chronicled, hexavalent chromium dissolved from cooling-tower wastewater at a Pacific Gas & Electric facility leached into the groundwater beneath the town of Hinkley
Bill Chameides: The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies Bill Chameides 2011
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From a visually damaging cooling-tower collapse in 2007 to a report last month of leaking radioactive tritium, compounded by misinformation the company gave to legislators, sometimes under oath, about the pipes involved in that leak, the odds of Vermont Yankee's winning permission to keep operating went from strong to dim.
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As time ticks on, a series of problems at the plant - including a much-publicized cooling-tower collapse in 2007 and incorrect testimony from plant officials about underground pipes that surfaced just last week - have emboldened critics and dimmed the plant's hopes of winning a favorable vote.
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Disadvantages: almost all heat gets released to ocean, which may not be allowed; consumes some energy to pump water from ocean (I don't know how this compares to cooling-tower power-consumption, but I think it's usually less).
CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries hopefully 2010
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The company began storing cooling-tower water in unlined ponds, assuring residents that the hexavalent chromium added to the water to prevent rust was safe for consumption.
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