What are the purpose of these towers when generating nuclear power?
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Those are the cooling towers. They help reduce the water used by the nuclear plant by condensing and recirculating the steam. It’s a costs saving measure most of the time.
If you have easy access to water like a river or oceanside plant, you could just pull that water in and move it through the turbine then let the steam just evaporate away. But if you do that you have to constantly be thinking about sand and other contaminates getting into all the precisely engineered part of a power turbine. So a lot of nuclear power plants use cooling towers so the turbine water stays isolated and filterd from the outside water and the outside water is used in a separate loop of pipes to pull heat from the turbine water and then condense it in the cooking tower to recover some of the steam as clean liquid water again.
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