A Global Nuclear Power Renaissance Isn't Living Up to the Hype

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5. To address the other point in this post, the use of peak power units for renewable junk...

...GW, for instance is a big part of the detestable fraud that antinukes use to obscure the uselessness of their junk energy scam.

A standard nuclear, the AP1000, for example runs continuously except when refueling or undergoing maintenance. The data available at the EIA for this year shows that Vogtle 3, a reactor of this type on the first 89 days of 2026 produced 2,419,846 MWh of electrical energy, which translates to 8.7114456 Petajoules. The reactor is rated at 1,117 MW. There are 1,132,886,704 seconds in 89 days. Thus the reactors average output was 1,132,886,704 Watts. This means the capacity utilization was 101.42%.

A quick Google search indicates that in Georgia, depending on weather, the capacity utilization of solar cells there is between 24 and 26%. While this is a Google AI claim, experience suggests that it's not too far off the mark. In addition if you need to run an electric pump at midnight, you're out of luck with respect to solar but have no problem being powered by Vogtle 3.

A GW of solar cannot "hold a candle" to a GW of nuclear.

Most "renewable energy" advocates use this extremely dishonest usage regularly and get a bye from our scientifically illiterate journalists.

Talk about a snow job. Using peak power ratings for so called "renewable energy," is blatantly dishonest, not that it prevents antinukes from routinely using it. The orange pedophile ain't got nothing on antinukes when it comes to lying.