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To: GenXPolymath
"rejecting 2000 megawatt hours of waste heat per hour of operation."
73 posted on 05/04/2026 1:24:26 PM PDT by TexasGator (T11..)
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To: TexasGator

“rejecting 2000 megawatt hours of waste heat per hour of operation.””

No the proper units are MWh per hour

A 1 gigawatt nuclear reactor electric is rejecting 2/3s of its 3 gigawatt thermal output. Every second it is producing 3000 megawatts of heat 2/3 of that end up as 40C condenser water.

2000 megawatts per second over an hour period is 2000megawatt hours of heat. So yes what I said is accurate 2000MWh per hour or 48,000 megawatt hours worth of heat per day. MWh is a unit of energy not power.

2000MWh is also 7200 gigajoules which is what the amount of waste heat that would be produced in a single hour of operation of a typical 1GWe reactor.

48GWh per day is another way to say it.


79 posted on 05/04/2026 3:12:42 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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