Sentences with phrase «average nuclear power plant»

The thermal power of an average nuclear power plant is 3,000 to 4,000 megawatts.

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Heastie pointed to the Republican support for a subsidy aimed at bolstering upstate nuclear power plants, which is expected to add roughly $ 2 to the average utility bill as a sign some GOP lawmakers are open to tacking on more fees or taxes to help pay for a broader public benefit, such as preserving jobs.

Thanks to our nuclear power plants, greenhouse gas emissions from New York's electric generating plants are just one fourth (per capita) of what is produced on average across the U. S.

The meeting was an opportunity for CENG executives to highlight the reduced radiation exposures at their plants, the company's above - average record in keeping its plants online, and its standing at the high end of the performance ratings by the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, an industry oversight organization.

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Finishing the reactors would be more expensive than building new gas - fired power plants, but averaged over the 60 - year service life, the costs will be right in line with renewables, about $ 60 to $ 80 per MWh — except nuclear produces reliably, where wind energy is fundamentally unreliable and chaotic.

This means average power output is 114 MW (about 1 / 10th of a new nuclear plant).

By comparison, a 1,000 megawatt nuclear power plant requires 1.3 square miles on average.

Steady performance is a feature of nuclear power plants, and this continued across the fleet with a global average capacity factor of 80.5 %.

What Willard doesn't understand is that even extreme mitigation measures such as replacing all future coal - fired power plants with nuclear will have an imperceptible impact on global average temperature by year 2100.

Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

First Solar's annual production capacity will double in 2009 to more than 1 gigawatt, the equivalent of an average - sized nuclear power plant.

A 2007 Keystone report concluded that just one wedge of nuclear power «would require adding on average 14 plants each year for the next 50 years, all the while building an average of 7.4 plants to replace those that will be retired» — plus 10 Yucca Mountains to store the waste.

Foreman for Davis - Besse Nuclear power plant digital upgrade, supervising an average of 12 personnel and 6 different work assignments.