The intake system that will draw cooling makeup water from the Kaskaskia River for Constellation Energy Group's $250 million Holland Energy plant in Shelby County, Ill., was designed to balance ...

To cool down, nuclear power plants pump water from local rivers or the sea, which they then release back into water bodies at a higher temperature. However, this process can threaten local ...

Water and electricity don’t mix. And rising levels of the Kentucky River and other bodies of water were threatening to overtake the electric-powered intake pumps in several communities.