Panorama of the Biotest Enclosure in Sweden (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Panorama of the Biotest Enclosure in Sweden

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For more than 30 years, the cooling waters from two nuclear reactors on the Swedish coast have been pumped into an artificial enclosure in the Baltic Sea, raising the average water temperature by between 5 and 10 degrees C. Researchers are able to use this enclosure, called the Biotest pool, to study the effects of warmer temperatures on fish.

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Fredrik Jutfelt, NTNU

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