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Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday March 12, 2022 @04:07PM (#30654891)
What prevents heated waste water from being used for…heat? Surely Finland uses central heating plants that pump hot water throughout the city (or maybe that’s just a Chinese/Russian thing?). What makes waste heat water less suited to heating, higher entropy?
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Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite... by ProblemFactory on Saturday March 12, 2022 @04:24PM (#30655011)
Combined Heat and Power in Finland is very common, much more so than in rest of Europe. 80% of the fossil fuel power plants output both electricity and heated water. Compared to (quick googling) 8% in the US and 11% in EU.
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Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite... by RF_Savage on Saturday March 12, 2022 @09:18PM (#30657248)
Fear of nuclear power. People don't want water heated by it in their homes. So it is not done. It's not a purely rational thing.

The plants are also located away from cities, so utilizing the waste heat for district heating is uneconomical.

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Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite... by Ekaros on Saturday March 12, 2022 @04:23PM (#30655004)
I think it just not hot enough after electricity production. So temperature is not high enough after it passes through turbines. Specially due to distances involved.
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