An Overview of IAEA Activities on Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Enrgy

摘要

The potential of seawater desalination using nuclear energy has led the IAEA to carry out an active programme on the demonstration of nuclear desalination. The programme includes technical meetings for information exchange on status of seawater desalination using nuclear energy, future challenges with emphasis on safety of coupling, and continued update and development of tools to support seawater desalination using nuclear energy. A new version of DEEP-4.0 has been released in February 2011. This version presents new features and easier usability for both newcomers and experts. The new version allows easier comparison between different technologies and configurations, as well as the instant overview of the designed system using all previous 37 different templates (including 4 power plant types, 3 fuel types and 4 desalination plants were combined in one). Beginners will become immediately familiar with the friendlier interactive user interface. Experts will be able to use a more polished version of the previous DEEP spreadsheets, and enhance their prefeasibility reports with the new reporting and analysis tools provided by this version.