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Old 03-11-2016, 05:12 PM   #7
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Re: Diver sucked into a nuclear power plant

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Originally Posted by sealark View Post
That water gravity flows into the pool where the pump takes a suction from the pool. Most all power plants that use open water are built like that. A safery factor making it very hard to get killed buy the pumps impellers.
I am glad to hear about that configuration. Somebody was using their head.

I wonder if they throw the fish back into the ocean.

Conversely, they could charge the public to come in and fish for them, and make a little money out of it.
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