By Ridhi Aggarwal and Monserrat Magaña Ocaña Golfech nuclear power station on the Garonne River, France. Thermal power plants rely on large volumes of river water for cooling and may be forced to reduce output when environmental temperature thresholds are reached. Photo credit: Peter Woodman via Flickr/licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 On a hot afternoon in southern France, the operators of the Golfech nuclear power station began watching the river more carefully

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