Nuclear heating: in China, domestic hot water comes from the atomic reactor
Unit 6 of the Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant in Liaoning Province in northeastern China has gone into operation at full capacity and will provide heating to local residents on an area of 242,400 square meters in Hongyanhe City this winter. , China Media Group (CMG) reported on Monday. All this in a province of China with a Siberian frost
The development will help ensure winter electricity supply in the region, which faced severe energy shortages last year. The move also comes as China is moving quickly to expand nuclear and other clean energy production amid the country's global energy challenges and carbon reduction goals.
According to CMG, nuclear heating will be more efficient than coal-fired and will not emit carbon dioxide. Nuclear reactors produce large quantities of excess heat which, after the transformation of water into steam and its use in turbines, must normally be dispersed into the atmosphere. Why, instead of wasting it, not using it for district heating? No sooner said than done. The water in question is not that direct contact with the nucleus with radioactive elements, but the secondary water that is transformed into steam to generate electricity.
The plant cost nearly 90 billion yuan ($ 12.56 billion) and has a total installed capacity of over 6.7 million kilowatts. It is the largest operating nuclear power plant in China and the third largest in the world. If all six units are running at full capacity, the plant can generate 48 billion kilowatts per year, which is about 20% of Liaoning's total electricity consumption, which is equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 39.93 million tons, according to the CMG report.
In addition, the installation of the unit 2 containment dome of the Taipingling Nuclear Power Plant in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong was completed on Sunday. This development demonstrates that the construction of nuclear power plants in fleet with Hualong One, a third-generation nuclear reactor of national design, is proceeding in an orderly fashion. China is accelerating the construction of its own nuclear reactors to combine energy independence and climate neutrality.
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