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How to Make a Profit on Waste Heat

Sam E. Beall, Jr., G. Samuels

Nuclear Technology / Volume 12 / Number 1 / September 1971 / Pages 12-17

Technical Paper / Reactor / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A15892

The possibility of using warm water from power stations to control the temperature of plant and animal enclosures is examined. With the heat from a nuclear station such as the 330-MW(electric) gas-cooled reactor being built near Denver, Colorado, it appears that a good fraction of the fresh vegetable, poultry, and pork needs of a large city could be produced in a growing area near the power station, and that the profit incentive is high to both the grower and the utility.