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Re:Making Nuclear Energy Smaller, Cheaper And Safer by jabl on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @12:13PM (#19860254)
Typical coal plants use superheated steam at around 540C and turbines designed for that, whereas LWRs produce wet steam at 300C, so no.

High-temperature reactors can produce superheated steam, but then it's not a LWR and you give up on all the knowhow how to run those. The Chinese are planning to deploy gas cooled pebble bed reactors which could replace the coal furnace at existing plants (HTR-PM).

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Re:Making Nuclear Energy Smaller, Cheaper And Safer by i_am_proteus on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:01PM (#19861352)
Alt. take: one could not reuse the turbines, at least not efficiently. One might be able to reuse other parts of the steam/condensate/feed systems. The electrical systems could largely be reused.

I doubt that reusing anything other than the power distribution and cooling loops would be economical.

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Re:Making Nuclear Energy Smaller, Cheaper And Safer by AstralStorm on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:27PM (#19862561)
Don't forget maintenance stations and other office housing required to run the plant.
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