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That is just plain incompetence. These are recent US nuclear capacity factors 2023: 93.0% 2022: 92.1% 2021: 92.7% 2020: 92.5% Nuclear has the highest capacity factor of any other energy source—producing reliable and secure power more than 92% of the time in 2024. That’s nearly twice as much as a coal (42.36%) or natural gas (59.9%) plant that are used more flexibly to meet changing grid demands and almost 3 times mor…
I think you are missing the forest for the trees. You can have a 93% capacity factor and still have short time periods with 45% of the fleet offline simultaneously. Another example is when half the French nuclear fleet was offline at the height of the energy crisis. Are you saying that a grid collapse is acceptable if outages correlate for nuclear plants?
Only if you have a tiny fleet with very bad management.