Nuclear power is the best but those cooling towers are cringe. In the USSR nuclear power plants were connected to a network of pipes that gave free, unmetered heating to the entire city. This was usually pointed out in the west as symptom of the wastefulness of the planned economy because people would rather open the window than turn down the heat.
Meanwhile in the west they throw away all the waste heat in those massive cooling towers, or they dump it into the sea at such rate that when the pump breaks like in Fukushima the power plant blows up.
I don't really know where you can read more about it, I just have a few friends in nuclear engineering. Googling 'nuclear district heating' seems to give good results like https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/31304794649.pdf and https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/978-981-13-9528-4 p. 1429.
Nuclear power is the best but those cooling towers are cringe. In the USSR nuclear power plants were connected to a network of pipes that gave free, unmetered heating to the entire city. This was usually pointed out in the west as symptom of the wastefulness of the planned economy because people would rather open the window than turn down the heat.
Meanwhile in the west they throw away all the waste heat in those massive cooling towers, or they dump it into the sea at such rate that when the pump breaks like in Fukushima the power plant blows up.
Cool. Where I can read more about this?
I don't really know where you can read more about it, I just have a few friends in nuclear engineering. Googling 'nuclear district heating' seems to give good results like https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/31304794649.pdf and https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/978-981-13-9528-4 p. 1429.