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<h2 class="hd hd-2 unit-title">2.1. Final Homework</h2>
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<p><strong>To conclude this section, please do the following:</strong></p>
<p>Look up the average capacity factors for electricity generation from (a) nuclear, (b) gas, (c) solar and (d) wind in your country.</p>
<p><strong>Hint to get started with nuclear power plants:</strong></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) maintains a database on all of the nuclear power plants worldwide. It is called the Power Reactor Information System, or PRIS for short. You can see information for individual countries and for each reactor within a country.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The weblink for PRIS is: <a href="https://pris.iaea.org/pris/">https://pris.iaea.org/pris/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">To drill down for data on individual countries, go to the tab marked “Country Statistics”. The left-hand panel contains the weblinks for each individual country. If you click on a country, each reactor is listed, and you can click on the name of the reactor to obtain detailed information on that reactor.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The IAEA uses the term “Load Factor” for what our lecture describes as the capacity factor. You can also see an “Energy Availability Factor” which describes how often the reactor is available to produce energy. The reactor can be available although it is not used, in which case the Load Factor will be less than the Energy Availability Factor. There are some other minor details that can produce a discrepancy between the Load Factor and the Energy Availability Factor. For example, a reactor can sometimes produce a little more electricity that its rated capacity, in which case the Load Factor will be a little more than 100%! However, the Energy Availability Factor is never more than 100%.</p>
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