Question

What is an advantage of using nuclear power plant to produce electricity?

Answer 1

As far as anybody knows, `"nucular power"` provides (i) the cheapest, and (ii) the most carbon neutral method of base-load energy production.

Explanation:

Nuclear power cannot provide a completely carbon neutral method of energy production, inasmuch as when a station is built, there is considerable carbon energy expenditure involved in the concrete used to build the station.

The `"IPCC"` report commissioned in 2014 concluded that nuclear power provides the cheapest base-load energy production. It also reported that the total life-cycle emission intensity of fission electricity has an average value of `12 *g` `CO_2` `"equiv/kWh"` which is the lowest out of all commercial base-load energy sources.