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> Keep old nuclear power plants running doesn't do anything for keeping people warm.

"According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, about 43 nuclear reactors around the world—mostly in Eastern Europe and Russia—provide district heating in addition to generating electricity." (https://www.powermag.com/district-heating-supply-from-nuclea...)

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You have to compare district heating to about 7 million households using natural gas for heating in The Netherlands alone.

So keeping a few nuclear power plants open has hardly any effect on the amount of natural gas that is used.

The big asterisk is that countries of the former Eastern bloc have the infrastructure in place. No one will keep old and expensive nuclear reactors around and build a district heating to millions of homes from scratch.

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