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Nuclear energy/power-steam pumping engines

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tali1 | 19:06 Wed 09th Jul 2008 | Science
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How much nuclear energy/power would be needed to produce the same amount generated by the largest steam pumping engines?
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Most power stations, including nuclear, use the energy to heat some form of steam, so I think you need to expand or rephrase your question, sorry.

Unless I have missed something anybody?
Watt is the unit of nuclear power?
Sizewell B generates 1188 MW

Here's your pumping engine

http://www.exploringthenorth.com/cornish/pump. html

It doesn't say how much power it produces but it says it can pump 5,000,000 gallons per 24 hours from 1,500 feet.

Putting that in grown-up measurements that's about 19 millon litres 457 metres and because a joule is 1Kg (a litre of water weighs 1Kg) raised 1 M that's 8.7 billion Joules in 24 hours.

Divide by seconds in a day gives you about 100KW

So you'd need 10,000 of these pumping engines to make 1 Sizewell B nuclear power station

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Answer to Brachiopod's question: Yes

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