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Don't most nuclear power plants require a water source around for cooling purposes?

Finding such a source in the middle of a desert might be a reason people don't build it there.



There is the Israeli nuclear research plant in the Negev desert, but presumably that doesn't require the kind of continuous cooling you need for a normal nuclear power plant.

France has been known to throttle it's nuclear power generation (they have tons) in the summer because the water in the nearby lakes that they use for cooling gets too hot.




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