The waste heat from producing nuclear turbine steam generatoin can be used for the desalination of seawater too. Building colocated facilities - nuke power/fresh-water manufacturing - could produce billions of tons of fresh water that can be piped inland with cheap power.
Thanks for the reminder!
Sometimes I get so focused on high-speed rail, light rail and maglev, that I forget that I also advocate Nuclear Desalination as well.
(((sigh))) so many issues... so little time...
sometimes I wonder if I'll ever live long enough to see even a little of my dream come to pass.
There is no better way to use the waste heat than this application.
I wonder if building them below sea level would ever be an option. Prohibitively expensive to build? Safer? I don't know.
Pumping fresh water and electricity into the cities that ring our coastlines. It would be nice to extract as much heat as possible with the desalination process so as to not pump too much heat into the ocean.