I can't take seriously an article that has such a blatant error as its basis (that the Post-merger Duke Energy's nuclear capacity tripled and is a much larger percentage of its production). The Pre-merger Post-merger graphs indicate that Progress Energy had 10GW of nuclear energy which has now been added to the Duke Fleet. In fact Progress Energy's nuclear plants had under 5GW of capacity and Duke Energy (pre-merger) had more nuclear capacity. Progress Energy had 5 reactors, each of which was less than 1GW capacity. Duke Energy had 7 reactors varying from 0.9GW to 1.2Gw each. Do the math.
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I can't take seriously an article that has such a blatant error as its basis (that the Post-merger Duke Energy's nuclear capacity tripled and is a much larger percentage of its production). The Pre-merger Post-merger graphs indicate that Progress Energy had 10GW of nuclear energy which has now been added to the Duke Fleet. In fact Progress Energy's nuclear plants had under 5GW of capacity and Duke Energy (pre-merger) had more nuclear capacity. Progress Energy had 5 reactors, each of which was less than 1GW capacity. Duke Energy had 7 reactors varying from 0.9GW to 1.2Gw each. Do the math.