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I have no idea what you're talking about, since nowhere did I use solar capacity factor data nor did I look at number of reactors per plant.


You are using both with your energy generated numbers. That's where they come from.

Your solar TWh comes from 25GW at ~15% capacity factor, and to get your nuclear numbers you're looking at 1.6GW for each of nuclear "plants" when each reactor is usually about 1GW or less. There are ~90 reactors in the US, at 54 plants. The article is assuming 1 reactor per plant for the Netherlands.


> The article is assuming 1 reactor per plant for the Netherlands.

Small addition that isn't mentioned in the English version of the article, but only in the original Dutch version: the article talks specifically about the Borssele power station [0] (which has a power output of 485MW).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borssele_Nuclear_Power_Station




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