Water Desalination with Nuclear Reactors, small and medium reactors is a booming
future business. Over 50 plants worldwide in planing or design stage. Japan and China
with the highest research and development spending to lead the future markets.
Drinking water is in short supply in many parts of the world and the shortage will increase. Water Desalination is one answer to solve water problems in many countries. The energy need and costs for desalination plants are very high. Most desalination today uses fossil fuels, and thus contributes to increased levels of greenhouse gases. Nuclear energy is already being used for desalination, and has the potential for much greater use worldwide and is generally cost-competitive with using fossil fuels. Small and medium sized nuclear reactors are suitable for desalination, often with cogeneration of electricity using low-pressure steam from the turbine and hot sea water feed from the final cooling system. The main opportunities for nuclear plants have been identified as the 80-100,000 m3/day and 200-500,000 m3/day ranges. The feasibility of integrated nuclear desalination plants has been proven in Kazakhstan, India and Japan and other countries. There are more then 50 new plants in the planning or feasibility stage today and the potentials are much higher. Large-scale deployment of nuclear desalination will depend primarily on economic factors but security and safe handling too.
Nuclear Desalination Worldwide, developed by Helmut Kaiser Consultancy, is a study about the most recent market development, technological innovations, competition and related regulations & policies. Helmut Kaiser Consultancy has been tracking the development of the water desalination industry for over 20 years
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