A recent study of oceanographic processes off the coast of Western Australia, for instance, appears to have ruled out one possible site for
a waste outfall from a proposed pulp mill.
«Sometimes we find reefs that are doing very, very well in places that you would least expect to find them,» says Gates — such as a reef off Taiwan that lies below the
waste - water
outfall pipe of a nuclear power plant and experiences temperature fluctuations of between 6 °C and 8 °C per day.