Engineering360: "Video: A modular nuclear approach to decarbonize district heating"

I'd rather use the nuclear reactor to generate electric power with a steam turbine then use the waste heat from the condenser for low-grade heat for district heating/domestic hot water. But, people don't like power plants right in their city, which is really too bad because so much heat from the steam process is just rejected directly into the environment (water cooling, water assisted air cooling, etc.).

Its amazing how all nuclear power projects reports always leave out the storage of accumulated spent rods.

Consider changing your nuclear reactor to the Gen IV, fast neutron, type; there is no water used and therefore no pressure is required. It is also much more efficient.

And no more spent rods to store.

Wrong. There are still fuel elements that should be reprocessed, but the quantity and intensity of the radioactivity is much less.