Re: Uranium availability

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:37:04 -0400, "daestrom"
<daestrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"T. Keating" <tkusenet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 12:04:27 -0400, "daestrom"
<daestrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Care to explain how the 'plant capacity factor' for the median US nuc is so
much higher then your made up terminology?? If a plant's capacity factor
for a two year run of the median plant is 93%, how can it's
duty-factor*production-factor be only .855 ??

Because you contrived up your own facts and figures..

Now for SOME HARD FACTS nothing like a hard
dose of the truth to interject into a debate.


http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat1p1.html
Net generation by source..
(Thousand megawatt hours.)


2004.. 788,528

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat2p2.html

Table 2.2. Existing Capacity by Energy Source, 2005
(Megawatts)


Nuclear
Energy Source
Nuclear

Number of Generators
104

Generator Name plate capacity
105,585

Net Summer Capacity
99,988

Net Winter Capacity
101,524


==== calculations ======

Name plate capacity
105,585MW * 366 days (2004 leap year) * 24 == 927,459 (theoretical
thousand megawatt hours.)

788,528 / 927,459 == 85.0% (actual 2004 production verses rated name
plate. )


Same calculations for 2005..
781,986 / 924,925 == 84.5% (actual 2005 production verses rated name
plate. )


Time to eat crow.. Mr. Daestrom..
.

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