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And where would you find water for the nuclear power plant?
by kiba 14y ago
And where would you find water for the nuclear power plant?
- ChuckMcM 14y agoThat is an excellent question! In the ideal case you would tap into a sub-surface aquifer, in the worst case you would initially import it (creating an artificial sub-surface aquifer :-)) Presumably for safety and economics reasons the system would run closed loop which would minimize losses. The challenge would be heat dump on the turbine supply, however given how cold it gets a night in the desert one might be able to finesse that with surface radiators connected thermally to the reservoirs. In full disclosure, when the conversation originally came up (when discussing nuclear vs solar a while ago) we just did the basic math/materials analysis and did not do a full operational analysis on the idea.