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To: alloysteel

Nuclear power available 24/7.
Search: How much land area does a power plant take up?
A typical 1,000-megawatt nuclear facility in the United States needs a little more than 1 square mile to operate.

Search: how much uranium to power a nuclear plant

How much uranium is needed for a nuclear power plant?
About 27 tonnes of uranium – around 18 million fuel pellets housed in over 50,000 fuel rods – is required each year for a 1000 MWe pressurized water reactor. In contrast, a coal power station of equivalent size requires more than two and a half million tonnes of coal to produce as much electricity.
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How much electricity can 1 gram of uranium produce?
about 1 MW
The fission of 1 g of uranium or plutonium per day liberates about 1 MW. This is the energy equivalent of 3 tons of coal or about 600 gallons of fuel oil per day, which when burned produces approximately 1/4 tonne of carbon dioxide.
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Search: How many acres do you need for a power plant?
Depending on the specific technology, a utility-scale solar power plant may require between 5 and 10 acres per megawatt (MW) of generating capacity. Like fossil fuel power plants, solar plant development requires some grading of land and clearing of vegetation.
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12 posted on 02/23/2023 7:59:23 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: minnesota_bound

Still not thinking outside the box.

Uranium-fueled Light Water Reactors are OBSOLETE. Newer designs are available, and could be put into mass production, using modular design, trucked to site, and be up and running within WEEKS. These newer designs use a far smaller quantity of uranium to be operational, and when the energy is down to a level where useful heat is no longer available, the module is pulled out, sent back to the manufacturer, and recycled with a new charge of nuclear fuel. And the land requirements? We are talking about less than ten acres for a multiple installation, to perhaps no more than an acre for a specialized application, like a remote area, or a military post.


14 posted on 02/24/2023 4:17:40 AM PST by alloysteel (Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov)
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