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Section size for Nuclear power (41 sections)
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(Top)	5,820	5,820
History	47	38,107
Origins	4,671	4,671
First power generation	2,677	2,677
Expansion and first opposition	9,920	9,920
Chernobyl and renaissance	5,288	5,288
Fukushima accident	7,049	7,049
Current prospects	8,455	8,455
Power plants	3,880	3,880
Fuel cycle	3,030	56,810
Uranium resources	17,653	17,653
Waste	1,565	21,811
High-level waste	9,212	9,212
Low-level waste	796	796
Waste relative to other types	4,554	4,554
Waste disposal	5,684	5,684
Reprocessing	6,913	6,913
Breeding	7,403	7,403
Decommissioning	2,783	2,783
Production	10,190	10,190
Economics	12,337	12,337
Use in space	2,022	2,022
Safety	10,329	25,611
Accidents	11,589	11,589
Attacks and sabotage	3,693	3,693
Proliferation	8,702	8,702
Environmental impact	2,911	8,823
Carbon emissions	3,892	3,892
Radiation	2,020	2,020
Debate	33,735	64,856
Comparison with renewable energy	17,476	31,121
Speed of transition and investment needed	11,725	11,725
Land use	1,920	1,920
Research	13	8,183
Advanced fission reactor designs	1,095	1,095
Hybrid fusion-fission	1,300	1,300
Fusion	5,775	5,775
See also	317	317
References	30	30
Further reading	3,352	3,352
External links	882	882
Total	252,705	252,705

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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)[reply]

Fixed. --TuomoS (talk) 06:24, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

its unfortunately says no emissions again, should we fix? Rynoip (talk) 03:09, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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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 ^[1]. This is the source cited for the original statistic, but I believe it was copied incorrectly. ThePiMaven (talk) 19:57, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

Looking back through, the graph shown at the start of the safety section uses the old statistic and also should be corrected. ThePiMaven (talk) 20:14, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

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62.253.28.177 (talk) 10:17, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes 62.253.28.177 (talk) 10:18, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest you add more pictures for learning

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. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 14:10, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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Change number of employees from 556 to 329.

I’m an employee there and this is the number listed in our Outlook directory. It is well known publicly that we had significant layoffs in 2024 (~28% in January and then ~10% more in July). 131.150.2.197 (talk) 15:04, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: I think you added this to the wrong article. This is the article on nuclear power. It does not have any employee counts that I can find. meamemg (talk) 17:05, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

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