Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Why Not Build Desalination Plants EVERYWHERE?" video.

  1. Old fashioned PWR utility nukes produce a huge volume of waste heat but its at low temperature so not really enough to evaporate sea water. Today's molten salt designs burning any fuel (new uranium, irradiated old fuel or thorium) run at high temperature. This leaves then far more able to use the excess heat to desalinate sea water or work in series with solar heating to get the job done. The huge benefits are low installation costs and extremely low nuke waste. PWRs have such horribly long life used fuel because it's after just 4% of the fissile energy has been taken. Molten salts running in the fast spectrum can take 99% of that energy leaving a "waste" with a 1/2 life of 30 years vs 30,000 years for PWR use fuel.
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