"Material inputs" seems to be yet another misleading statistics intended to sell nuclear. I would completely ignore it. The nuclear industry has been trying to

"Material inputs" seems to be yet another misleading statistics intended to sell nuclear. I would completely ignore it. The nuclear industry has been trying to convince us that nuclear energy is cheap, but this is becoming a very tough sell after a series of bankruptcies and massive cost overruns. So now they try to sell us on how great nuclear is because it uses less total weight of material per gigawatt produced. That may be the case but it is still far more expensive than all the other options. It is like saying that a Ferrari must be cheaper than Chrysler minivan because it has about half the weight of total metal in it.