Small modular reactors (SMRs) could prove a competitive solution for district heating in Sweden, but regulatory changes and public acceptance would be required for their deployment, a report has shown.
The report, ‘The potential of nuclear heat in Sweden’ was produced by business consultancy EY and law firm Mannheimer Swartling and was commissioned by Sweden’s Nuclear Coordinator to assess the feasibility of deploying SMRs to meet the country’s district heating needs.
The report found that there was potential for nuclear heat in larger urban areas or industrial clusters where there was electricity demand of up to approximately 90 TWh, or 400 GWh per year.
“In these systems, nuclear heat has the potential to replace bio-based and fossil emissions of up to approximately 30 million tonnes per year,” the report said.
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