WorldChanging.com has a post on an aspect of the nuclear power debate that I hadn’t considered before, namely what happens when there’s a water shortage?

Nuclear plants need lots of water for cooling purposes and as a result are usually situated beside a river. As global warming raises temperatures of the rivers, and potentially reduces the water flow through them, there’s less water around to cool the reactors and they have to be shut down temoprarily. This has already happened in France, Germany and the US, and it would be particularly relevant here in Australia given the fact that we’ve been in permanent drought around Sydney for six years at this stage.