Opinion | Small modular nuclear reactors could solve Colorado’s carbon problem
NuScale Power makes history as the first ever small modular reactor to receive U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission design approval. An artist’s rendering of NuScale Power’s small modular nuclear reactor plant. Last month, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissionfor the nation’s first advanced small modular nuclear reactor . According to the U.S.
Currently, Colorado’s electricity comes from coal , natural gas , wind , hydropower 26%, and solar . The state is pursuing energy innovations at the margins. In addition to harvesting natural gas from wells, the state has four biogas facilities that collect methane produced by landfills and wastewater treatment plants. A Lamar feedlot facility uses an anaerobic digester to produce power from animal waste.
In terms of safety, nuclear power is by far the safest as measured by the number of deaths per terawatt-hours of electricity produced. A watt-hour is a unit of energy equal to one watt of energy output for an hour and a terawatt is a trillion watts. The United States uses around 4,000 terawatt-hours of electricity in a year.
Nuclear is also the most reliable of the energy sources in terms of the amount of electricity produced by a generator at full capacity. Nuclear power plants can produce maximum power more than 92% of the time compared to natural gas , coal , hydropower wind , and solar photovoltaic cells .
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