Nuclear Seawater Desalination Plant Coupled with 200 MW Heating Reactor

Feasibility study on nuclear seawater desalination plant in which a 200 MW nuclear heating reactor (NHR-200) couples with MED processes has being finished at Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology (INET) of Tsinghua university in China, the Chinese government has agreed to built the kind of nuclear seawater desalination plant in Shandong peninsula of China. Two different kinds of MED processes, high temperature stacked VTE-MED and low temperature horizontal tube MED-TVC, have been investigated and compared, the capacities of the fresh water production are 160,000 m3/d and 120,000 m3/d respectively. Based on the result of feasibility study the VTE-MED plant shown a better economic competition than the MED-TVC, but not on the technology maturity for a so large nuclear desalination plant. The two kinds of different nuclear desalination schemes and the primary economic results on them are presented in the paper.