How Many Solar Panels Would It Take To Equal One Nuclear Reactor?

By Daniel Trock – BGR

The world is growing more power-hungry all the time, with more and larger devices, appliances, and vehicles hooking into the grid. It’s a big part of what makes it difficult to adopt renewable power sources like solar panels on a large scale, especially compared to the monumental power output of a single next-generation nuclear reactor. Both solar panels and nuclear reactors may generate electricity, but it would take over 8.5 million solar panels receiving light around the clock to generate the same kind of output that a nuclear reactor is capable of.