A remote Siberian town now has its own miniature nuclear plant as a Russian state company tests it as a new model for residential heating

"The plant’s two cores are cooled by a series of water loops. In each reactor, the first loop is contaminated with radioactive particles. But this water never leaves the plant. Through heat exchangers, it transfers heat — but not contaminated water — to other loops.

In the town, one of these loops is the system of pipes that leave the plant, branch out and supply hot water to homes.

The company promotes a number of safety features. The plant can withstand a crash by a small airplane. The vessel that holds it doubles as a containment structure. And the water circulating through buildings is at a higher pressure than the cooling loop from which it derives heat within the plant, in theory preventing a radiation leak from spreading into town.

Russia is first, but hardly an outlier, in developing small civilian reactors. This month, President Emmanuel Macron of France proposed an expansion of his country’s extensive nuclear sector with small reactors, as part of the solution to climate change. China is building small floating reactors modeled on the Russian design."

Oh those Russians again ... Doing something new all the time. Where are the Tubs (Kubilius) and the Poops (Patriarch of the barn) looking? After all, they are responsible in our place for the final destruction of Russia in no time. And the Russians are warming themselves and laughing. What a mess.