Dear Louis Edward Mauget I found your article to be extremely interesting and very well authored.
However, I am taking liberty to pointing out just one small factual error in the following.
There is picture of a cooling tower captioned “Nuclear energy is heat intense that’s why cooling towers are used in nuclear power plants”.
Factual reason behind use of cooling towers in nuclear power plants is not the heat intensity of nuclear reactors but that steam is produced in nuclear power plants by boiling of highly pure water, known as demineralised water and it would be uneconomical to let exhaust steam coming out of the steam turbine driving the generator; therefore the exhaust steam is condensed in a condenser in which cold water is circulated inside cooling tubes outside of which passes exhaust steam which goes on condensing forming very pure condensate water which is recycled to produce steam again in the nuclear reactor.