Development of a nuclear desalination plant using the SMART

Nuclear desalination simply replaces the fossil fuels used for seawater desalination as a nuclear energy. Since the SMART co-generation plant aims at the most effective use of thermal energy produced by SMART, the desalination process and the coupling method were determined through the thermodynamic analysis for the evaporation process, MSF and MED, and the various coupling method. The performance ratio of the SMART desalination plant was optimized through the sensitive analysis on water production cost with the performance ratio. Also thermodynamic energy balance calculation was performed on the SMART secondary cycle coupled with the desalination plant including steam transformer. In addition, the safety impact of the transients induced by the desalination plant was evaluated through the bounding approach of the key safety parameters of these transients