Interesting side note. In a previous life back in the 90's, I worked in the (civilian) nuclear power industry. I came across some old company reports from the

Interesting side note. In a previous life back in the 90's, I worked in the (civilian) nuclear power industry. I came across some old company reports from the 80's for selling nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia for desalination and not electrical power generation. I asked my boss about it because he was around at the time and he said the Saudis were serious but the numbers just didn't work out. I think the main problem was fouling of the tubes used to boil off the water leaving behind all sorts of dissolved mineral and salt deposits. Chronic cleaning or replacing the tubes killed the economics.