Development of a trigeneration atomic energy complex

   One of the promising ways to reduce the cost of low-power power products manufactured by atomic stations is the transition to combined production. This work presents the results of studies of the new technological scheme of the low-power nuclear power plant with a high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor producing three types of energy products: electric and thermal energy, as well as hydrogen. Based on the results of mathematical modeling, it was found that the coefficient of the use of the heat of fuel of the proposed promising atomic energy complex reaches 78,7 %. In turn, the normalized cost of the joint production of hydrogen and heat is 12,3 % lower than the normalized cost of separate production of useful products.

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