I have more worries about riding a bus in Thailand than I ever had living by Trojan and they have a nice park there for a place for the cooling ponds.
Nuke is the only way to go as far as I can see because modern life requires mass amounts of electricity, a lot comes from hydro, but it fucks things up after so many years. it is clean but dams do some damage,, but it is better than steam plants run on fossil fuels.