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Cooling tower

Term · Nuclear energy and radiation · MLC-T-NUC-000088

A heat exchanger designed to aid in the cooling of water that was used to cool exhaust steam exiting the turbines of a power plant. Cooling towers transfer exhaust heat into the air instead of into a body of water.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-NUC-000088
FieldNuclear energy and radiation
ReferencesNRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-NUC-000088",
  "term": "Cooling tower",
  "field": "Nuclear energy and radiation",
  "definition": "A heat exchanger designed to aid in the cooling of water that was used to cool exhaust steam exiting the turbines of a power plant. Cooling towers transfer exhaust heat into the air instead of into a body of water.",
  "references": [
    "NRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/nuclear/cooling-tower/"
}

Record 88 of 555 in Nuclear energy and radiation terminology (MLC-0119). Request the full dataset.