There it is, how to solve Austin and Corpus total water demands and power demands too , while doing so for all eternity using a unlimited supply of uranium from the very water it us desalination from.
This says nothing of using the surplus D2O and U238 for a fleet of hybrid breeders and other ABWRs
It should be noted that the hybrid fusion only needs a Q of under 1 humans have gone past this today it is a subcritical neutron source driven by its massive fission multiplication blanket around it the fusion plasma runs at a energy loss and it doesn’t care because the fission blanket is cranking out E=MC^2 at a massive rate due to fast fission from all those fusion neutrons the two feedback on each other and it multiplies by 50-200X the fusion plasma yield you can run it at a DEEP loss. We have this tech today. It makes thousands of KG of Pu239 and that scares the boomers. Not us GenX we embrace plutonium for the fuel it is.
Even without closing the fuel cycle the four pad ABWR reactors can just use commercial 4.5% U235 BWR fuel like anyother AWBR in use today. Thar doesn’t change the outputs one bit it just means you eventually will run out of U235 unless you mine the Ocean singular, and if you do that without breeding the desal flows no longer have enough U235 vs U238 you use for breeding to fuel even one of your reactors. YOU MUST BREED FUEL to use seawater uranium recovery that is a fact of physics. Until people stop being afraid of plutonium our species is screwed.
The coastal bend rejects desalination. The natural barrier to growth is nimby and natural local environment conditions, private property, etc. Texas has decided to run via tax breaks instead of a ready supply of water. South Texas faces severe drought conditions as is the norm.