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Anonymous Mon 22 Nov 15:02:13 2021 No.13879439 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13879485 >>13879511 >>13879678 >>13880389

If the USA set up 100 nuclear reactors around the country, would that be sufficient to power all national activity?
How long would it take to do this?

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Anonymous Mon 22 Nov 2021 15:05:09 No.13879445 Report

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>would that be sufficient
no
>how long would it take
30-40 years

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Nov 2021 15:16:23 No.13879485 Report

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>>13879439
>How long would it take to do this?
production time is probably two or three years, but since lobbying is legal, state and federal representatives get paid by big oil to delay and increase costs for nuclear as much as possible. Literally domestic propaganda slows the deployment of nuclear power because people have money in mining and drilling, shits fucked yo

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Anonymous Mon 22 Nov 2021 15:26:07 No.13879511 Report

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>>13879439
depends on how big the reactors are. You could make HUGE HONKING REACTORS and power everything. I mean honking because the cooling towers sort of look like clowns horns

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Anonymous Mon 22 Nov 2021 16:11:12 No.13879678 Report

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>>13879439
From some quick googling, and back of the envelope estimation:
>A typical nuclear reactor produces 1 GW of electricity.
>In 2018 the total U.S. consumption of electricity was 4,222.5 terawatt-hours.

There are 8760 hours in a year. So 1 reactor would get you 8.76 terawatt-hours. 4,222.5/8.76 = 482. So you would probably need between 400 and 500 reactors to power all national activity.

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Anonymous Mon 22 Nov 2021 16:22:21 No.13879708 Report

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>>13879485
and considering the US spent more than $2 trillion to essentially shoot missiles and drop bombs on some dusty hills in Afghanistan this kind of project is a lot more worthwhile

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Anonymous Mon 22 Nov 2021 18:28:42 No.13880068 Report

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USA already have around 95 reactors responsible for 20% of national activity

You need 500

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Anonymous Mon 22 Nov 2021 20:14:17 No.13880389 Report

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>>13879439
nope
As of December 31, 2020, there were 23,417 electric generators at about 11,070 utility-scale electric power plants in the United States. Utility-scale power plants have a total nameplate electricity generation capacity of at least 1 megawatt (MW).

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