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Only if the operator is criminally incompetent. 90%+ capacity factor/uptime is pretty much standard and the better ones reach ~95% For example TVO in Finland
by doikor 3y ago
Only if the operator is criminally incompetent.
90%+ capacity factor/uptime is pretty much standard and the better ones reach ~95%
For example TVO in Finland has 93% to 97% depending on the reactor since the early 1990s. Fortum has very similar numbers for their reactors.
- jeffbee 3y agoThis is the definition of cherry-picking data points.
- doikor 3y agoI would say cherry-picking data points is better then providing 0 data points. edit: Basically competent operators hit ~90%. US is around 93%. Sweden 84% Switzerland 90% France would hit that if they could run their plants at 100% when they are on but they run theirs in load following mode due to having so many of them. So they run at around 80%. World average is 83%. https://world-nuclear.org/getmedia/891c0cd8-2beb-4acf-bb4b-552da1696695/world-nuclear-performance-report-2021.pdf.aspx https://world-nuclear.org/getmedia/891c0cd8-2beb-4acf-bb4b-5... And yes I know best the numbers about the market I live in because I live here and this stuff effects the price I have to pay for electricity.
- asadotzler 3y agoIf the world average is 83% and his claim included 80%, he wasn't as far off as you made him out to be with the criminal negligence business, was he?