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About 400,000 people in homes in three cities in northern China stayed warm and cozy this winter, thanks to heat piped from their local nuclear power plant.
The Haiyang nuclear plant feeds into a district heating network called Warm Nuclear No.1, which has been expanding since 2019 and also serves the neighbouring cities of Rushong and Weihai. It's now preparing to extend to Qingdao City, 130 km from Haiyang.
As of December 2025, heat from the nuclear power plant had displaced 1.3 million tonnes of coal and cut CO2 emissions by 2.3 million tonnes, improving winter air quality in the cities it heated, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported.
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