The world's largest sea water hybrid desalination plant to be coupled to a nuclear power station is coming up at Kalpakkam. THE nuclear power complex at Kalpakkam, about 50 km from Chennai, will soon have a nuclear desalination plant, which will be the world's largest sea water hybrid desalination plant to be coupled to a nuclear power station. It will produce 63 lakh litres of potable water a day using a thermal method and a reverse osmosis (RO) system. While the thermal method will produce 45 lakh litres of drinking water a day, the reverse osmosis system will produce 18 lakh litres. The Rs.40-crore Nuclear Desalination Demonstration Project (NDDP) is being built by the Desalination Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay. Volume 18 - Issue 25, Dec. 08 -21, 2001 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1825/18250870.htm