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Pengwuino
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What nations actually have commercial nuclear reactors producing energy for their country?
Astronuc said:ARGENTINA
I noticed various US and UK plants which have long been decommissioned...
I don't have a map, but HERE are the numbers.Pengwuino said:Crazy people! Anyone happen to have like a map of electricity prices in the US by region or county or something of the sort? I wonder what characterizes a low-priced electricity region/city and what characterizes the opposite.
Oahu is in a high-frequency volcano, earthquake and tsunami zone.ohwilleke said:As I've noted before in this forum, I think that the place with the single most to gain from a new nuclear power plant would be the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
hitssquad said:Oahu is in a high-frequency volcano, earthquake and tsunami zone.
google.com/search?q=hawaii+tsunamis
Normally, reactors are not located in such high-risk areas.
ohwilleke said:The prices are averaged over all sectors of consumption. Some details on state by state electricity sources follows:
San Onofre Unit 1 was of an older design (first generation) and of very small capacity. It eventually became uneconomical to keep it running, as the maintenance and repair costs continuously crept higher (it was also determined to be economical to shut it down before the older employees, who had the most experience with that reactor, retired).Pengwuino said:I thought one of diablo canyons reactors was shut down [...] maybe I am thinking of San Onofre.
Your URL is a mile long and it simply points to this one:russ_watters said:I don't have a map, but HERE are the numbers.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/states/statestn.htmlGrogs said:Have you got the stats for Tennessee?
Competing Fuels
Electricity Market in Tennessee
(Percent Generated by Fuel)
Year Coal Gas Hydro Nuclear Petroleum Other
2003 60 * 12 26 * 2
2002 62 1 8 29 * *
*less than one percent
Source: Form EIA-906, Power Plant Report
hitssquad said:Conversely, Diablo Canyon's two units are the most advanced reactors online today in the United States, and they seem to be cost-effective.
http://www.zimfamilycockers.com/DiabloCanyon.html
Grogs said:Ohwilleke:
Have you got the stats for Tennessee? You have 50 'states' in your list, but it also included the District of Columbia, so it should be 51. I tried to find it from your link, but it wasn't intuitively obvious which table(s) you pulled your data from.
hitssquad said:Your URL is a mile long and it simply points to this one:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/price.html is the table I was looking at.
hitssquad said:Morbius,
What are the two blue pools for? Do they hold emergency cooling water?
hitssquad said:Morbius,
Thanks for the info. Yes, those pools look to me like they hold about 4.5 million gallons. That's a great picture of Diablo Canyon, BTW.
As of 2021, there are a total of 31 countries that have nuclear reactors for power generation, research, or naval propulsion. Some of these countries include the United States, Russia, China, Japan, France, and the United Kingdom.
As of 2021, there are a total of 440 nuclear reactors in the world, with a combined capacity of over 390,000 megawatts. However, not all of these reactors are currently operational due to maintenance, safety concerns, or decommissioning.
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