Study of heat supply systems development

Prospects for the development of centralized heat supply systems in USSR are briefly discussed and some results of a study of the main problems are presented. The problems include an improvement of the structure of heat supply systems; utilization of heat sources of new types such as nuclear power plants, and the construction of slewable thermal power plants using organic fuel, also reliability of heat supply and environmental aspects. The results indicate a decrease in the relative part of decentralized sources and further extensive development of heat supply systems, with a rapid growth of the share of nuclear heat supply sources, such as dual-purpose power plants, district heating and industrial heat supply nuclear plants