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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Atomic Museum marks 20 years of education
The National Atomic Testing Museum, better known as the Atomic Museum, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Located in Las Vegas, Nev., the museum was established in 2005 to preserve the legacy of the Nevada Test Site, now called the Nevada National Security Sites.
Charles T. Rombough, Billy V. Koen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 26 | Number 1 | May 1975 | Pages 5-11
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24399
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Studies have shown that the total energy required to construct a 1000-MW(e) nuclear power plant is about 4.1 × 109 kWh for light-water reactors. This is equivalent to ∼ 1.9% of the total energy produced by the plant (in the form of electricity) over a 30-yr life at an 80% load factor. An additional 3.4 × 108 kWh(e) of energy per year is used in maintaining the fuel cycle for a boiling-water reactor (BWR) and 3.6 × 108 kWh(e)/yr for a pressurized water reactor (PWR). This corresponds to 4.9% of the output electricity for a BWR and 5.2% for a PWR. The total investment in energy is, then, 6.8% for a BWR and 7.1% for a PWR. On a total system energy cost, nuclear plants are comparable to coal plants in that 7.8% of the plant energy is required for deep-mined coal and 6.7% for surface-mined coal.
