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Check on USA nuclear reactors’ performance with activist toolkit

Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #6: Reactor Daily Power Levels , director, Nuclear Safety Project All Things Nuclear, May 14, 2013 When something happens at a U.S. nuclear power reactor like an unplanned shut down or problem that prevents operation at full power, it can be helpful to place that incident in context. One means of providing that context is to examine that reactors’ operating performance. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission posts information online that can help. Each work day, the NRC posts a data setcontaining the daily power levels reported for each nuclear power reactor in the country during the past year.

 Each entry in the data set contains a date, the reactor’s name (e.g, Indian Point 2) and the percentage of rated power (i.e., 0 to 100).

The data set can be easily downloaded as a text file and imported into a spreadsheet program like Excel to allow the data to be examined. Those steps for Excel are:……http://allthingsnuclear.org/nuclear-energy-activist-toolkit-6-reactor-daily-power-levels/

May 16, 2013 - Posted by | general

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