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Nano to begin drilling next week in Illinois
It’s been a good month for Nano Nuclear in the state of Illinois. On October 7, the Office of Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that the company would be awarded $6.8 million from the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act to help fund the development of its new regional research and development facility in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook.
Franz Wolfgang Mayer
Nuclear Technology | Volume 40 | Number 3 | October 1978 | Pages 234-239
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A26721
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District heat transfer is the most economical utilization of the waste heat of power plants. Optimum utilization and heat transfer over large distances are possible because of a new energy distribution system, the “energy cascading system,” in which heat is transferred to several consumer regions at different temperature ranges. It is made more profitable by the use of heat pumps. The optimum flow-line temperature is 368 K, and the optimum return-line temperature is 288 K, resulting in an ∼50% reduction of electric power loss at the power plant.
