Seeing that they need quite a lot of clean water, which is not widely available everywhere during the entire year in big amounts, especially with these droughts due to climate change.

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    Most power generation methods like coal have similar requirements, and it doesn’t have to be clean water. In costal areas, seawater can be used just fine.

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      Can this be an effective method of desalinization?

      If seawater is used, couldn’t the steam be captured for fresh water?

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        You use seawater for cooling the systems. You could use excess power to run desalination plants, but not use the reactor directly.