the world, and because it is easy to produce each site could choose how many reactors they would need. It can be used to destroy weapons grade plutonium. First the site must construct a particle accelerator. The system is called Reactor Accelerator Plutonium Destruction, and it could be used to destroy .8 metric tons of plutonium per year. The third and final advantage of the M.H.T.G.R. is the ability to supply freshwater. In order to achieve this a Water Production Plant must be built, and added to the nuclear island."After the steam from the NI is used to produce electrical energy, it's waste heat is sent to the WPP. This hot circulating water is the energy source for the WPP. About 20% of the salt-water can be desalinized into fresh water, while the rest is returned to the ocean in the form of concentrated brine. The seawater intake system is designed to take in 340,000 gpm of seawater, which corresponds to 68,000 gpm of fresh water produced." (http://starfire.ne.uiuc.edu/~ne201/1996/pederson/link4.html)Considering the need for freshwater this is an incredible advantage.The need for an alternative form of energy is very real, and when the safety features of the M.H.T.G.R. are taken into account, the concept of nuclear energy being a solution to the energy crisis is a distinct possibility. MIT Nuclear Engineer Lawrence Lidsky states that "What is needed is a nuclear reactor that Dan Rather can shoot with a bazooka on-camera, and it shuts down without releasing radioactivity. That is what the M.H.T.G.R. is." A presentation by Osman Chughtai and David Shannon states that "The worst case scenario, where the third world nations aspire to US consumption rates, means there are only 17 years left. Although this is a worst case, most best case scenarios offer a resource exhaustion time scale which is at most 3-4 times this value which is 50-70 years." (http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/fossilfuels.htm) With this pressing crisis, a...
