Why is corporate responsibility a failure in this country? Our nation should be a leader in reducing impact.
More than 1,000 power plants and factories around the country use water from rivers, lakes, oceans and creeks as a coolant. At Indian Point plant in New York, the two reactors can pull in 1.7 million gallons of water per minute. Nineteen plants on or near the California coast use 16.3 billion gallons of sea water every day.
It takes thousands of eggs to result in one adult fish. The EPA counts only commercial or recreational species, but shows we lose 1.5 billion year-old fish because of eggs and larvae killed each year at the nation’s large power plants.
Technology has long existed that might reduce the fish kill by 90 percent or more.