Comment by Choco31415
8 hours ago
There's plenty of work happening with adapting non evaporative cooling loops for data centers. Maybe that can be applied here too, even if to mitigate some of the cooling needed?
8 hours ago
There's plenty of work happening with adapting non evaporative cooling loops for data centers. Maybe that can be applied here too, even if to mitigate some of the cooling needed?
Data centers can afford to spend way more per kWh of heat discharged. Nuclear needs to dump 3+kWh of heat per kWh of electricity generated.
Nitpick here:
Nuclear discharges more like 2kWh of heat per kWh of electricity produced.
Perhaps slightly more, but its in that ballpark. Seems like a small difference but you are overstating the waste by near 50%.
Source: Degree in Nuclear Engineering, previous life was a Reactor Operator. Also, just look up thermal efficiency of currently operating reactors.