Cooling pond
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This article is about artificial outdoor ponds supplying cooling water for power plants and factories. For storage of spent nuclear fuel (usually but not always indoors), see spent fuel pool.
A cooling pond is a man-made body of water primarily formed for the purpose of cooling heated water and/or to store and supply cooling water to a nearby power plant or industrial facility such as a petroleum refinery, pulp and paper mill, chemical plant, steel mill or smelter.