Paper · 1978 · Nuclear Technology

Experience Gained in France on Heat Recovery from Nuclear Plants for Agriculture and Pisciculture

P. Balligand; P. Le Gouellec; M. Dumont; et al.

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Abstract

Since 1972, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Electricité de France, and the French Ministry of Agriculture have jointly examined the possibility of using thermal wastes from nuclear power plants for the benefit of agricultural production. A new process to heat greenhouses with water at 303 K using a double-wall plastic mulching laid directly on the soil has been successfully used for a few years on several hectares. When necessary, heat pumps are utilized. Very good results have been obtained for tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers, and strawberries, etc. Outdoor soil heating with buried pipes has been tested in Cadarache near an experimental pressurized water reactor for market garden crops and forestry. Gains in precocity and yield have been excellent, especially for asparagus, strawberries, and potatoes. Growing of eels has been four times faster in warm water over one year.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Heated greenhouses gave very good results for tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers and strawberries.

Taxon
tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers, and strawberriese2
Treatment
heat greenhouses with water at 303 K using a double-wall plastic mulchinge1
Outcome
resultse2

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e1

“A new process to heat greenhouses with water at 303 K using a double-wall plastic mulching laid directly on the soil has been successfully used for a few years on several hectares”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 245–424 · show in text ↑
e2

“Very good results have been obtained for tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers, and strawberries”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 467–554 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Outdoor soil heating with buried pipes increased precocity and yield of asparagus, strawberries and potatoes at Cadarache.

Taxon
asparagus, strawberries, and potatoesFragaria ×ananassaSolanum tuberosumAsparaguse3
Treatment
Outdoor soil heating with buried pipese4
Outcome
precocity and yielde3
Direction
increaseinferrede3
Setting
Cadarachee4

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Fragaria x ananassa
Fragaria ×ananassa · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Solanum tuberosum
Solanum tuberosum · TaxonScott Bauer, USDA ARS · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Asparagus
Asparagus · Taxon · picture of the genus (one of its species)Ольга Лялюк · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

e3

“Gains in precocity and yield have been excellent, especially for asparagus, strawberries, and potatoes”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 714–816 · show in text ↑
e4

“Outdoor soil heating with buried pipes has been tested in Cadarache near an experimental pressurized water reactor for market garden crops and forestry”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 561–712 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Eels grew four times faster in warm water over one year.

Taxon
eelse5
Treatment
warm watere5
Outcome
Growing of eelse5
Direction
increaseinferrede5
Value
four timese5

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Schema note from the model: non-plant result (eel growth) in a paper that names plants; taxon kept as the eel as written

Verbatim

e5

“Growing of eels has been four times faster in warm water over one year”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 818–888 · show in text ↑

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heat · yield · Fragaria x ananassa (strawberry)Results differ

16 papers: 9 positive, 7 negative or no effect

8 papers in the same direction as this paper · 7 in the opposite direction

  1. negative
  2. no effect
  3. no effect

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heat · yield · Solanum tuberosum (potato)Results differ

20 papers: 6 positive, 14 negative or no effect

5 papers in the same direction as this paper · 14 in the opposite direction

  1. negative
  2. negative
  3. negative

16 papers more in this group

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heat · yield · AsparagusResults agree

2 papers: 2 positive, 0 negative or no effect

1 paper in the same direction as this paper

  1. positive
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Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.