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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by petre on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:36AM (#32013899)
> The same talk show people now talk about how we have a heat and not a power problem, so we don‘t need the nuclear power.

Which is even more ridiculos because heat is the primary product of nuclear reactors. Their thermal rating of a nuclear reactor is about 3x the electrical rating.

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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by liftm on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:02AM (#32014983)
Out of curiosity, are there any nuclear reactor cogeneration plants in operation?
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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by morning_gelato on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:10PM (#32015826)
Yes, for example Switzerland uses two of their nuclear power plants for district heating [1][2]. China has also started using it for district heating in Haiyang [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beznau_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Ref...

[2] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...

[3] https://www.nucnet.org/news/city-of-haiyang-first-in-country...

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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by Iwan-Zotow on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:31PM (#32016884)
Sure

"Russia, Dec 1, 2019 — Unit 1 of the Leningrad 2 nuclear power station in western Russia has been integrated into the heat supply system of the city of Sosnovy Bor"

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