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- From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.213633.28100@kestrel.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 21:36:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.165855.22315@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >In article <p2qrxnc@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >>
- >>I'll let others take shots at the rest of the "study". I've seen enough
- >>in just this little chunk to discredit it.
- >
- >Most of these figures were taken from the literature of organizations
- >promoting nuclear power and match the best history from France. The
- >only exception is the 65% figure. I am not sure what its source is
- >but increasing it to %80 or %90 will not change capital costs at all
- >nor will it drastically change operational costs.
-
- It will reduce the number of plants you need. If you need 10GW you must build
- at least 15 1GW plants, if the availability is 65%, but only 12, if it's just
- over 80%.
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- Total operating costs also decrease since a plant probably has costs that go on
- even when it is not running.
-
- -dk
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