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Czech researchers develop revolutionary nuclear heating plant
- ggm 5y agoI'd want quite a bit of distance between the primary and secondary coolants, if that is possible. The idea of having a leaky radiator which happens to drip "hot" water... (there are many ways to do heat exchange which would remove most of the risk and I bet almost all of them are well understood in the nuclear industry anyway: you don't run a turbine off the direct pile coolant) Given the energy is there, I don't see anything inherently wrong with using it. The capitalised costs of central heating is something a lot of european cities have invested in, there is nothing majorly wrong with that model either. Perhaps some risks of 'all in or all out' failure modes. (I can think of a bridge which is heated, to prevent dangerous icing, as well as home heating models) It's a giant heat-pump. They could push it into the ground, and have a large year-round thermal buffer. Grow crops out of season, heat greenhouses, you name it.