Vaughn Simon wrote:


I am an ex-Navy nuclear power plant operator, so I have also slept
a night or two on a Navy nuke ship (submarine actually).

I am not nearly as down on the civilian plants as you are. In
ways, their operations are safer (or at least easier) than those the
of the Navy because they tend to operate at a constant power for
months at a time. They have (for example) no such thing as a fast
scram recovery procedure, and, being attached firmly to the ground, don't
have to deal with the pitch, roll and vibration of operating at
sea. Furthermore, they use injected fission poisons so that they can
operate with the rods pulled out, resulting in safer core power
distributions and giving them a tremendous shutdown margin for
emergencies.

Cool, maybe you can answer my question. If one of the Navy Nukes were set up
and run at a continuous power how much electricity could the plant provide.