How many square miles of solar panels would be needed to equal one Nuclear power plant?

Question

How many square miles of solar panels would be needed to equal one Nuclear power plant?

Answer 1

Are we talking daytime or night time?

Nuclear winter anyone?

Answer 2

It depends on the size and number of reactors, but probably several hundreds of miles.   In addition, this really does not relate it because solar panels are subject to the bell curve of solar emission.  Meaning, the sun gets brighter and dimmer as the day goes on, so battery buffering systems are required.  None of this is required for traditional fission reactors...

In short, solar panels will never realistically challenge fission reactors.  Their energy release are simply too powerful to reproduce with wind or solar...

Answer 3

A solar farm generates around 25Kw.

A wind turbine generates around 2.5Mw or the same as 100 Solar farms.

A Nuclear turbine generates 2,500Mw or about the same as 100 wind turbines.

Figure one nuke replaces 10,000 solar farms.

Answer 4

Nuclear power plants are pretty heavy. It would take tons and tons of solar panels to match them.