Tag: Nuclear
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San Luis county pledges US$ 900,000 for plans tap into nuclear plant desalination
The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors has committed US$ 900,000 to planning and permitting for a proposal to expand Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant’s reverse osmosis desalination plant to supply South County residents.
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Drought stricken California county looks to nuclear plant desalination plant
California’s San Luis Obispo County board of supervisors has approved a sewage reclamation project that could add treated wastewater to an aquifer and the expansion of a desalination facility at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant as emergency water supply options.
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Morocco’s first solar-powered desalination starts up
Morocco’s first solar-powered desalination plant has started operations near Marrakech.
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South Africa’s Cape ponders desalination as water crisis grips
The provincial government of South Africa’s Western Cape is looking to water reclamation and seawater desalination as it considers its options for securing water amid a serious crisis.
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California county mulls tapping into nuclear plant desalination
As part of its plans to combat ongoing severe drought, California’s San Luis Obispo County (SLO) is considering the construction of a 10 km pipeline to tap into the spare capacity of a desalination plant currently providing only the needs of a nuclear power plant.
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China ups daily desalt capacity by a billion cubic metres
China built 112 seawater desalination plants in 2014, with a total output of 927 Ml/d the State Oceanic Administration revealed recently in a report on seawater use during last year.
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Russia looks to export nuclear power and desalination packages
Russia’s nuclear power company, Rosatom, is aiming to sell integrated, large nuclear power and desalination plants overseas through its export arm Rosatom Overseas.
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Areva set to hand over desalination plant to Namibia
French nuclear group, Areva, is poised to hand over a desalination plant to the Namibian government, for an undisclosed sum according to the south west African country’s chamber of mines.
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Cape Town ponders giant desalination project as resources dwindle
Cape Town, South Africa is nearing completion of its feasibility study for a 450 Ml/d desalination plant that could be built near Koeberg on South Africa’s west coast within the next 10 years at a cost of some R14.9 billion (US$ 1.23 billion).
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Namibian government poised to table offer for Areva desalination plant
Namibia’s government is poised to table an offer to buy Areva’s seawater desalination plant at Trekkopje and to use the 20 million m³-a-year facility to supply the country’s semi-arid Erongo region.