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Figure 12 shows the Rankine cycle on a temperatureentropy diagram for a steam power plant. The solid red lines are for a coalfired power plant; the largedash red lines are for a nuclear plant. The condensed steam is pressurized with a pump from Point 1 to Point 2 and is then heated up in a boiler to reach from Point 2 to Point 3.