Open AccessSummary of Wind Data from Nuclear Power Plant Sites
Author(s) -
M. G. Verholek
Publication year - 1977
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1087585
Subject(s) - national weather service , nuclear power plant , nuclear power , wind power , service (business) , environmental science , data source , wind speed , meteorology , database , engineering , computer science , geography , business , electrical engineering , physics , nuclear physics , ecology , marketing , biology
This study was undertaken to provide a summary of wind data from nuclear power plant sites. National Weather Service archives are an immediately obvious source of wind data, but additional data sources are also available. Utility companies proposing to build nuclear power plants are required to establish on-site meteorological monitoring programs that include towers for collecting wind and temperature data for use in environmental impact assessments. These data are available for more than one hundred planned or operating nuclear power plant sites This site wind data provides a valuable addition to the existing NWS data sets, and significantly enlarges the multilevel data presently available. The wind data published through the NRC is assembled and assessed here in order to provide a supplement to existing data sets