@morbiuswilters said:
I'm not quite sure what point you are trying to make. Hot days make cooling difficult which is why the plants can't run at full capacity. They are designed to work within a particular range of temperatures and when they have to work outside of those temperatures, they lose capacity. And clearly they are cooling the water (since the effectiveness of the cooling reduces on hot days). Most likely they will have to increase the cooling capabilities of the plants or build more plans to add extra capacity for the times when they can't run at 100%.
So, anyway, WTF was your point? Did you even have one or were you just being retarded?
Simply that cooling millions of gallons of water per day is hard (i.e. expensive), to the extent that power companies would rather shut down completely from time to time than install equipment to ensure that the water going in and out of the plant is cool enough, and the government has been willing to overlook its environmental regulations to keep them going in the past.
I do look forward to a time when nuclear power stations emit neither dangerously warm water nor toxic waste, but it won't get here any sooner for people wishing it so.
And I would never attempt to be retarded in such illustrious company.