https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu an alternative energy source en-us 2017-10-12 14:24:38 UTC 2017-10-12 15:02:25 UTC hello@padlet.com henrytillery25 https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196447503 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.]]> 2017-10-12 14:27:33 UTC https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196447503 henrytillery25 https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196448141 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]]> 2017-10-12 14:28:36 UTC https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196448141 henrytillery25 https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196449577 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.]]> 2017-10-12 14:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196449577 henrytillery25 https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196450779 “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.”]]> 2017-10-12 14:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196450779 henrytillery25 https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196464536 The USA is the world's largest producer of nuclear power, accounting for more than 30% of worldwide nuclear generation of electricity.

]]> 2017-10-12 14:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196464536 henrytillery25 https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196465039 2017-10-12 14:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196465039 henrytillery25 https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196465685 2017-10-12 14:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196465685 henrytillery25 https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196466454 2017-10-12 14:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196466454 henrytillery25 https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196467148 The Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station powers part of New Hanover County. Other alternatives like solar are used as well.]]> 2017-10-12 14:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/henrytillery25/upwdq4azmogu/wish/196467148