How do aircraft carriers procure fresh water?
The engine doesn’t take in anything for the boilers or for a reactor. The reactor has a sealed, distilled water source for cooling. It is in no way in connection with the potable water system for the simple fact of safety. What if there were a leak in the system? Radioactive waste would get into the potable water system. That’s not good and a really stupid answer. This is how you make fresh water from sea water…you distill it. You bring in sea water (by pump) into a big kettle looking thing. You put fire (heat) to it and bring to a boil and the steam that rises from it is condensed and stored in potable water tanks that is then treated with chlorine and fluoride (just like your tap water at home). From there it is piped all over the ship or submarine to various places like the kitchen, laundry (no, sea water is not used for washing clothes), the head (bathroom) and scuttlebutt’s (water fountains). The heat source can come from different places. On nuclear powered vessels, super-heate
