Baker Institute
Summary
Nuclear energy can potentially supply baseload, carbon-free electricity and process heat to repurpose and utilize some of the Permian Basin’s roughly 25 million barrels per day of oilfield produced water.[2] Doing so would free up local natural gas supplies for other uses, create a new water resource, and potentially, help address increasingly significant challenges with induced seismicity related to injection disposal of produced water.
If a modern Manhattan Project is needed to handle produced water, the core tools of the original Manhattan Project — nuclear reactors — could potentially be very well suited for the task.
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