In light of the thermal energy burden, I am wondering if you could combine a small nuclear pile such as a small modular swimming pool reactor (once described as the only nuclear power plant design that anyone ever made profit from) as a heat source without generating electricity with DAC. A number of DAC processes need heat either at or below 1000C. A small nuclear reactor should be able to supply this. If the requirement to raise steam and generate electricity are removed, the cost of the plant and the cost per KWH of heat should be significantly lower. Such an operation would not make sense in the early years of DAC but later when scale up becomes much larger and the world gets serious about DAC, then this could make sense. Look forward to comments and discussion. Swimming pool reactors had a good safety record (as far as I am aware), were not that expensive to build and were not terrible to decommission.
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