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Solar energy now overlaps in cost with nuclear fuel alone for "cheap" modular reactors (energy-utilities.com)
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Uranium is $128.30/kg

After enrichment, conversion and fabrication that's $3400/kg for 4.95% fuel.

At 36-45MWd/kg and a net thermal efficiency of 25% or $12.5/MWh up front.

With a 90 month lead time (72 month fuel cycle and 18 months inventory) at 3% this is $16.2/MWh

Which some solar projects are now matching

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[โ€“] chaogomu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reprocessing fuel for breeder reactors was the thing that was banned. Now there have to be all sorts of workarounds that don't work well.

[โ€“] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

...banned in a couple of countries for four years.

Why is every single one of these always a trivially verifiable lie?