Live-Generated Electricity
In Kilowatt-Hours:
Since Commissioning Injected Current
In Gigawatt Hours:
Cooper Nuclear Power Station
'Cooper Nuclear Power Plant' in the US state of
Nebraska is a nuclear power station that has a
net capacity of 774 megawatts and a gross
capacity of 805 megawatts.
Until the beginning of February 2015, it has
provided approximately 192,000 gigawatt hours
of electricity.
It generates 215 kilowatt hours of electrical
energy per second.
Radioactive Waste
Every kilowatt hour of electricity generated
creates 0.3 milligrams of radioactive nuclear
waste.
Of these, about 2,000 becquerels can be released
into the air in the form of radioactive noble
gases; tritium and iodine-131.
Total output per kilowatt hour is at least 1.1
billion becquerels, while 600 becquerels could
contaminate about 1833 tonnes of food.
In the long term, this absorbed radiation dose
would be fatal to 1,200 people.
The counter for "lethal radiation doses" should
be higher by many factors as radioactive
substances do not dissolve after the death of a
human being,
but remain radioactive in other environmental
systems for thousands of years.
Every hour, another 231 grams of new nuclear
waste is produced that must be stored safely for
millions of years.
Every day, the atomic pile produces radioactive
waste that could kill all seven billion people in
the world more than two times!
Newly-formed radioactive waste could
potentially kill millions of people: