Nuclear Co-generation: The Analysis of Technical Capabilities and Cost Estimates

Off-site modular construction and design in nuclear power: A systematic literature review

“…Furthermore, 600GW of new nuclear may be needed by 2050 for net zero emissions (Lovering and McBride, 2020). Integrating higher levels of renewables may benefit from co-generation with nuclear (IAEA, (2019), Bragg-Sitton et al, (2020) and Forsberg and Bragg-Sitton, (2020)) providing energy for district heating (IAEA, (1998) and Reński et al, (2016)), desalination (IAEA, (2007), Ingersoll et al, (2014) andIAEA, (2015)), generation of hydrogen (Revankar and Bindra, 2019) and synthetic fuels, further increasing its economic potential (Locatelli et al, 2017). Indeed, most Small Modular Reactor (SMR) designs in development include considerations for at least some of these co-generation options and some reactors are designed specifically for district heating such as the DHR400, Happy 200, TEPLATOR, RUTA-70 and ELENA are stated for commercial operation in 2021, 2024, 2027respectively (IAEA, 2020.…”