Nuke plant's hatchery churns out healthy fish
Monday, August 30, 2010 at 12:00AM
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In cartoons, fish that grow up in waters around nuclear power plants end up with three eyes or some other deformity.

In reality, Exelon Nuclear's Quad-Cities Generating Station in Cordova, Ill., operates the only privately owned fish hatchery on the Mississippi River and has reared and released about 6 million healthy fish since 1984.

LINK (Via: The Quad City Times)

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