Seeing that they need quite a lot of clean water, which is not widely available everywhere during the entire year in big amounts, especially with these droughts due to climate change.

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    8 months ago

    Can this be an effective method of desalinization?

    If seawater is used, couldn’t the steam be captured for fresh water?

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      8 months ago

      You use seawater for cooling the systems. You could use excess power to run desalination plants, but not use the reactor directly.