Experimental study of utilization of nuclear power heating plants for big towns and industrial agglomerations in Russian

The paper describes comparison of nuclear power heating plants with an output corresponding to 1000 MWe with plants of the same output using coal or oil. The economical aspects are compared, both as regards investment and operation costs. As to environmental aspects the comparison is performed concerning pollutions into atmosphere by exhalations and gaseous emissions and also as to ''thermal pollutions'' into hydrosphere and atmosphere. Basic schemes of a nuclear power plant with two PWR's, each having an output of 1.500 MWt, are described. The plant supplies, beyond electric power, also heat both for technological purposes of factories and for municipal heating systems (appartments, shops and other auxiliary municipal facilities). At the same time the basic heat-flow diagram of a nuclear power heating plant is stated, inclusive of relative losses. The study emphasizes possible utilization of waste heat for heating of glass houses of 200 sq. m area both for growing of vegetables and of some sorts of flowers for seeds and for production of fish. As to possibilities of utilizing waste heat, the needs of a big town (or of an industrial agglomeration) are taken into consideration, in vicinity of which the nuclear power heating plant is located