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PamW

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1. Dishonest accounting!
Sun May 6, 2012, 02:56 PM
May 2012

Of course this is dishonest accounting.

That capacity factor is counting all the nuclear power plants that are shutdown and dismantled.

It's a bit like counting all the airliners in the airliner boneyard in Arizona when it comes to calculating the airlines' "on-time" departure rate. Of course those airliners in the Arizona boneyard contribute a ZERO to the on-time departure rate because they aren't going anywhere.

If you want to know the capacity factor of the nuclear power plants that are actually operating; it's in the high 90 percentile.

PamW

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