Potable water description

J. M. Hoppensack stated in 1795 that the mercury mines of Almaden had been worked for at least 2287 years and that cinnabar from them was sent to ancient Rome in the form of powder or sand (58). A. de Galvez-Canero believed that the Spanish mercury mines have been worked since the third or fourth century B.C. (28). In the Memoires of the Acaddmie des Sciences of Paris for 1719, Antoine Jussieu published a first-hand description of the great mine and smelters at Almaden, Spain, which he had visited two years previously (233). He was surprised to find that the crops, trees, and inhabitants were not injured by the fumes, and that springs near the mine yielded good potable water. The slaves who worked and ate in the mine however suffered severely from mercury poisoning (231). 

Table 5 summarizes the technologies for potable water production identified in the design descriptions of those SMRs for which such options are foreseen. 

TABLE 5. TECHNOLOGIES OF POTABLE WATER PRODUCTION SPECIFIED IN THE DESIGN DESCRIPTIONS OF SMRs... 

None of the SMR design descriptions in this report identifies the need of further R D on the technologies of seawater desalination. However, a certain amount of R D on the selection and optimization of a potable water production process and the system configuration could be foreseen for the cases when such a selection has not been made. 

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