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Your response seems a little cynical, but here's an example: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Haiyang-begins-commercial-scale-district-heat-supp htt

• southerntofu 5y ago
  That's an interesting project, but it's a little short on technical details. It mentions heating capabilities without a 100km radius but nothing about thermal losses on the way and how that model compares to municipal heating as is usual with waste burning (not saying burning trash is a better idea than nuclear fission, just listing options here). > my understanding is that this form of heating can be much more efficient than alternatives like electric heating. It makes sense that mutualizing efforts to produce heat is gonna have a better yield/efficiency. I'm just sure nuclear energy is a disaster (at least all known and planned implementations so far) and i'm not sure whether using that excess heat in this manner is efficient. I'm very sure, though, that it's considerably better than rejecting very hot water into natural streams where it destroys ecosystems.