A Brief Overview of the Trends in Deployment of Nuclear Cogeneration Projects Round the World

Rupsha Bhattacharyya

doi:10.37591/jonet.v10i3.4094

Abstract

Nuclear cogeneration projects have the potential to provide long-term clean and sustainableelectricity, and a host of associated benefits such as clean water, useful radioisotopes, cleanfuels and heat to mankind. Several such projects have been in operation and many more arecoming up in a number of countries as this concept gains increasing importance in a worldwhich is looking to obtain sustainable and clean energy sources and associated services forall. This work attempts to provide a brief overview of basic information and trends about thenuclear cogeneration projects that have been operational round the world for the last severaldecades as well as on the most recently deployed projects and the current ideas and conceptsin this domain that are being explored by various nations. Nuclear cogeneration projectsenable diversification of the nuclear industry and are directly related to achieving the UnitedNations Sustainable Development Goals to which many member nations have already madepublic commitments.