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The Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station powers part of New Hanover County. Other alternatives like solar are used as well.

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The USA is the world's largest producer of nuclear power, accounting for more than 30% of worldwide nuclear generation of electricity.

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“One uranium fuel pellet—about the size of the tip of a pencil eraser—produces the same energy as 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas, 1,780 pounds of coal or 149 gallons of oil.”

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Nuclear power plants only produce radioactive waste and water vapor as byproducts. Water vapor is harmless to our environment and the radioactive waste can be disposed of safely. It also decays over time, and after forty years the used fuel removed from a reactor has only one thousandth of its initial radioactivity.

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In 16,000 cumulative years of reactor up-time, there have been only three major accidents: Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima. Of these three incidents, two led to the release of radioactivity and one led to a small number of fatalities

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Nuclear power plants have the highest capacity factor of all energy sources. A capacity factor is a fuel sources ratio of actual energy produced to maximum possible energy produced. Nuclear power plants have an average capacity factor of 92.2%. The second highest capacity factor is from geothermal with 71.7%, while gas, coal, and oil have capacity factors of 56.3%, 54.6%, and 14.7% respectively.