Talk:Nuclear power

newer reactor designs
To the keepers of this article, there seems to be a pretty interesting overview of the latest reactor designs at Nuclear power reconsidered. Some of that information might be useful in the Research section of this article. They've gone more deeply into it.Harborsparrow (talk) 22:56, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Nuclear zero-emission?
In the introduction, the article says that the USA produce "800 TWh of zero-emissions electricity per year". It is obvioulsy not zero-emission: green house gases are emitted in the process of building the plant, extracting and transporting the fuel and decomissionning the plant. 82.147.145.235 (talk) 05:24, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Fixed. --TuomoS (talk) 06:24, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 November 2023
Under the section titled 'Safety' in the third paragraph 'With a death rate of 0.07 per TWh' should be changed to 'With a death rate of 0.03 per TWh'. The source is citation 199 in the nuclear power page, which is this article. This is the source cited for the original statistic, but I believe it was copied incorrectly. ThePiMaven (talk) 19:57, 15 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Fixed. It was not copied incorrectly, but the source has been updated in 2022, based on more recent analysis and estimates. --TuomoS (talk) 20:38, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Intro
Intro is too long. Info on end-of-life-fuel-cycle is unnecessary as is repeated in the fuel cycle section; to focus on such suggests bias. But what a weird bias hey. Like Coprophobia. Stick the waste back down to mines from whence it came. Focus on the benefits. 118.149.93.125 (talk) 08:57, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 April 2024
62.253.28.177 (talk) 10:17, 15 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes 62.253.28.177 (talk) 10:18, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

I suggest you add more pictures for learning
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate.  (talk | contribs) 14:10, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Units for Nuclear power generation graph
The vertical axis is labelled in TWh which is a unit of energy not power. I guess the graph is of TWh/year which is a (weird) unit for power. 2,500 TWh/year is 290GW BTW. Does this bother anyone else? PeterGrecian (talk) 08:18, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't see what's the problem. That's the energy generated each year (not the installed capacity). This is the standard way and units for displaying this information. The convention in energy engineering and energy science is to use kW and multiples for installed capacity and kWh and multiples (including TWh) for energy generated. --Ita140188 (talk) 12:47, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Ita is correct. Read other power plant articles and about things like nameplate capacity and you'll see these are the standard units used. --- Avatar317 (talk) 23:26, 14 June 2024 (UTC)