>Nuclear powerplants warm the water that they use for cooling, and the
>discharged water can raise the temperature of streams locally. The
plants
>and animals in the water act as if it were a warm spring, and it is just
>possible that non-native snail populations could become established
there.
>Does anyone have examples?


Various exotic tropical snails are known form the vicinity of nuclear
plants and tropical fish farms in Idaho.




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Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama, Box 870345
Tuscaloosa AL 35487
"James gave the huffle of a snail in
danger But no one heard him at all"  A.
A. Milne

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