In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:02:07 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > >>...which seems a waste to me. Why not use the "waste" heat for >>desalination? It >>has fresh water as a "free" byproduct of the cooling process. > >There have been a few nuclear powered desalination plants. I do not >know whether they were co-gen units or only desalination plants, but >I believe even engineers are skittish about putting drinking water in >close proximity to reactor cores. It seems like a dumb idea to me. [snip] I take you are referring to possible contamination. However that would only happen if there was a leak, and even "normal" nuclear plants can contaminate the environment when there is a leak, so it doesn't seem inherently any more dangerous to me, than a normal plant. Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
