Talk:Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

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This is a great and very informative article, but it could use a picture, in my opinion.

Bkissin 20:18, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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I don't understand the numbers in this segment:

"Maine Yankee's most productive year came in 1989 when the average amount of energy produced reached 6,900 gigawatts per hour. The highest recorded output was 118,700 gigawatts per hour."

Watts (and gigawatts) are units of instantaneous power, so what's a "gigawatt per hour"? This plant is listed here as capable of 860 megawatts, which would mean an annual output of around 7500 gigawatt-hours per year if run constantly at that rate, but I can't make sense of these figures. --Arteitle 00:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, The listed units make no sense. I read that the plant was rated at 920 MW and nuclear plants these days often run well above thier original power ratings, so It's possible that the author meant 6900 GW-hrs were produced in 1989 and the max power production was 1.187 GW. Just a guess, but these numbers seem reasonable.

[edit] POV Unsourced statement

"In 2005, dangerous radioactive material was still consistently being removed. The process is to end later in 2005 when the final radioactive soil is removed and grass is planted over the area."

This is clearly an anti-nuclear POV and an unsourced statement. I am leaving it for now but it should be removed if unable to be referenced to a reliable source. Matt (talk) 20:12, 7 December 2007 (UTC)