Nuclear plant for district heating

[dan_b]

Am I reading this right - this nuclear reactor is being used "just" to create heat for local district heating ? Or is something else going on here?

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles ... mmissioned

[smegal]

"The HTR-PM - the world's first pebble bed modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor - features two small reactors (each of 250 MWt) that drive a single 210 MWe steam turbine"

Looks like it generates electricity too.

[AE-NMidlands]

Am I reading this right - this nuclear reactor is being used "just" to create heat for local district heating ? Or is something else going on here?

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles ... mmissioned

I thought that most of these things used the district heating load to provide the "relative cooling" which steam turbines (and other engines) need to work efficiently?