A Russian city has nuclear-powered showers
The isolated city of Pevek, in Siberia , has activated a project in which not only the electricity, but directly the district heating are powered by nuclear energy.
The new technology, which does not emit carbon into the atmosphere, is presented as a green innovation.
As various countries argue in Glasgow and conclude nothing, Russia has embraced residential nuclear heating as a potential solution, also hoping it will bring a competitive advantage. Companies in the U.S., China and France are considering building the type of small reactors that are directly connected to heating systems, such as pevek
Nuclear-powered residential heating is distinct from running space or water heaters with electricity generated from nuclear sources. Direct nuclear heating, pioneered in small areas of Russia and Sweden, circulates water between a power plant and homes, transferring heat directly from fission uranium atoms to homes. -DNYUZ
"It's very exciting," said Jacopo Buongiorno, a professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who added that these small nuclear reactors could provide heat to greenhouses or for other industrial purposes. "The Russians have the advantage," he added.
“The decarbonisation of the electricity grid will only take you a quarter of the way”, continued Buongiorno. "The rest comes from all these other things."
Buongiorno said he would gladly do a "nuclear shower", but admitted that "obviously this will not work if people are not comfortable with technology".
This is the next generation of small modular nuclear reactors, in this case on ship, which many believe will be the future of clean energy. A project filtered by China speaks of the construction of at least 150 nuclear power plants in the coming years to meet energy needs, in a theoretically clean way.
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