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What is an advantage of using nuclear power plant to produce electricity?

Answer 1

As far as anybody knows, #"nucular power"# provides (i) the cheapest, and (ii) the most carbon neutral method of base-load energy production.

Because there is a significant carbon energy cost associated with the concrete used to build a nuclear power station, nuclear power cannot provide a totally carbon neutral method of energy production.

The #"IPCC"# report commissioned in 2014 concluded that nuclear power provides the cheapest base-load energy production. It also reported that the total life-cycle emission intensity of fission electricity has an average value of #12 *g# #CO_2# #"equiv/kWh"# which is the lowest out of all commercial base-load energy sources.

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Answer 2

Noah Aldrich

One advantage of using nuclear power plants to produce electricity is that they generate large amounts of electricity with relatively low fuel consumption, compared to fossil fuel-based power plants. Additionally, nuclear power plants produce low levels of greenhouse gas emissions during electricity generation, contributing to reduced air pollution and mitigating climate change.

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