NUCLEAR POWER
Fresh Water From Sea (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, June 21. Britain has taken the first step towards harnessing nuclear power for the economic production of limitless fresh water from the sea, says the “Sunday Times.” After seven months’ work, the Atomic Energy Authority and a Glasgow engineering firm have designed a plant to desalinate 30-million gallons of seawater a day. It could be built at once, anywhere in the world. In certain conditions, it could be powered, economically, by a nuclear reactor.
“Britain now has a flying start in this immensely important endeavour,” said Dr. Hans Kronberger, the scientist-in-chief of the authority’s reactor group at Risley, Lancashire, and head of the joint project with Weir Westgarth Ltd. “The desert blooming is still, economically, a hazy pipe-dream, but the road is open,” he said.
The new desalinisation plant is more than 20-times larger than the biggest of its kind yet working. Alone, it can supply the entire domestic needs of a city of 600,000 people.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30783, 22 June 1965, Page 8
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