Talk:Maine Yankee

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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)


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.

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