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0 pointsncmncm4y ago0 comments

Solar and wind on a disused nuclear reservation can produce as much power as the nuke used to, or had been expected to produce if ever completed. The grid tie-ins come in handy.

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opo4y ago· 1 in thread

For typical nuclear power plants the land usage isn't anywhere close to what you claim:

>...A typical 1,000-megawatt nuclear facility in the United States needs a little more than 1 square mile to operate. NEI says wind farms require 360 times more land area to produce the same amount of electricity and solar photovoltaic plants require 75 times more space. To put that in perspective, you would need more than 3 million solar panels to produce the same amount of power as a typical commercial reactor or more than 430 wind turbines (capacity factor not included).

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/01/f58/Ultimate...

Are there countries where the land use for nuclear power is orders of magnitude larger?

ncmncmOP4y ago

Evidently my information was faulty. Pilots are advised to stay well outside the fenceline when flying below 1500 feet above ground level, but the sites are not so marked on the sectional charts.

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