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50-MW plants would be for district heating and could be online in 2030

Source: Nucnet
Date: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/smr-startup-steady-energy-now-has-option-to-built-15-nuclear-reactors-12-1-2023

Country also needs investment in large reactors and renewables, says economic institute

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 23 September 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/three-smrs-could-meet-80-of-warsaw-s-district-energy-needs-says-report-9-5-2023

Holtec International has applied for a patent for multi-stage compressors that would enable any coal-fired plant to be repurposed by replacing its coal-fired boiler with clean steam from the SMR-160 small modular reactor.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Thursday, 12 January 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Holtec-claims-SMR-160-can-repurpose-any-coal-fired

A new report by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), “Beyond Electricity: The Economics of Nuclear Cogeneration”, published on 22 July says: “Nuclear energy is an important source of low-carbon electricity and plays a significant role in avoiding carbon emissions. It has the potential to contribute further to the decarbonisation of the world’s energy sector if it is also used to provide heat for industrial applications, which today mainly run on fossil fuels.”

Source: NEI Magazine
Date: Friday, 29 July 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnea-report-looks-at-nuclear-cogeneration-9883922

The Qinshan nuclear power station in eastern China. China has put into operation a district heating system powered by residual heat from the Qinshan nuclear power station in Haiyan county in Zhejiang province, eastern China, China National Nuclear Corporation said.

CNNC said the project will help heat about 4,000 households and will serve as an example for the implementation of large-scale heating services in southern China in the future.

Cogeneration from nuclear power means heat generated in a nuclear plant while generating electricity – heat that would normally be lost – can be used to heat households or industrial processes.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Friday, 10 December 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/operation-begins-of-qinshan-nuclear-station-district-heating-system-12-4-2021

Nearby station has two Westinghouse-supplied AP-1000 reactor units The Haiyang nuclear power station in China has two Westinghouse AP1000 plants. Haiyang, in China’s eastern Shandong Province, has become the first city in the country to have its district heating system powered by nuclear energy, according to the China Nuclear Energy Association.

Two Westinghouse-supplied AP-1000 nuclear reactor units have been in commercial operation at the nearby Haiyang nuclear power station since 2018 and 2019.

CNEA said cogeneration via five heat-exchange facilities at Haiyang-1 has replaced 12 coal-fired boilers used to heat households in Haiyang, a coastal city of 200,000 residents. The operation has helped reduce CO2 emissions by 180,000 tonnes, CNEA said.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 13 November 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/city-of-haiyang-first-in-country-to-have-district-heating-system-powered-by-nuclear-11-5-2021

Heat from reactors, much of which is wasted, could be used for domestic heating and hydrogen production The Sizewell C project is investigating using some of the heat for cogeneration. Courtesy EDF Energy. Nuclear energy has the potential to help the UK to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, not only through the generation of low-carbon electricity but by more fully using the heat generated by a reactor, the Royal Society has said in a policy briefing.

The briefing considers how the use of nuclear energy could be expanded to make the most of the energy produced by nuclear plants and also to have the flexibility to complement an energy system with a growing input of intermittent renewable energy.

Nuclear “cogeneration” is where the heat generated by a nuclear station is used not only to generate electricity, but to address some of the “difficult to decarbonise” energy demands such as domestic heating and hydrogen production. It also enables a nuclear plant to be used more flexibly, by switching between electricity generation and cogeneration applications.

The society warns, however, that there are no existing nuclear cogeneration installations in the UK and it would be economically challenging to convert current nuclear plants to support cogeneration.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Saturday, 10 October 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/uk-report-highlights-potential-of-nuclear-cogeneration-10-5-2020

Nuclear energy could help the UK achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, not only through the generation of low-carbon electricity but also by fully utilising the generated heat, according to a policy briefing published yesterday by the Royal Society. This heat could be used to heat homes, produce hydrogen and decarbonise industry, it says.

Source: World Nuclear News
Date: Friday, 09 October 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Report-highlights-benefits-of-nuclear-cogeneration

Finnish company VTT has begun a project to develop a small modular reactor (SMR) for district heat production in the Nordic country.

According to VTT, the project aims to create a new Finnish industrial sector around the SMR technology and the production of needed components for the plant.

VTT said the first phase of the project will focus on the conceptual design of an SMR plant suited for the heating networks of Finnish cities.

Source: Nucnet
Date: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/local-company-to-develop-smr-technology-for-district-heating-2-2-2020

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