The Tennessee Valley Authority has to curtail its output of its Browns Ferry nuclear reactors in Alabama during the summers of 2010 and 2011 because the temperature of the river used for cooling waters became too hot.
Waxman cites instances of nuclear plants shutting down due to high cooling water temperatures.
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