Nuclear energy/power-steam pumping engines

[tali1]

How much nuclear energy/power would be needed to produce the same amount generated by the largest steam pumping engines?

[Cheeris]

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?

[brachiopod]

Watt is the unit of nuclear power?

[jake-the-peg]

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

Does that help?

[Teddio]

Answer to Brachiopod's question: Yes