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Nuclear only runs about 95% of the time. You still need to deal with grid complexities.


1.3 nines of reliability? Awesome.

Do you have a source for that, how wide is the variation for different reactor types and operators, does it apply to individual reactors or whole sites when there are several reactors on one site?


The PRIS database has country averaged data for energy availability factor, capacity factor etc.

https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/ThreeYrsEnergyAva...


I have to say: That looks as if they all value safety over uptime.

Thanks.




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