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Much of the high cost of fission power is due to the radioactive waste. The cost of fuel per kWh of nuclear is very low. >The cost of raw uranium contributes a
by twobitshifter 5y ago
Much of the high cost of fission power is due to the radioactive waste. The cost of fuel per kWh of nuclear is very low.
>The cost of raw uranium contributes about $0.0015/kWh to the cost of nuclear electricity, while in breeder reactors the uranium cost falls to $0.000015/kWh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_plants https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_p...
When you’re talking about thermal power generation - the process is the same in any power plant, so you could use your same argument with gas, coal, or geothermal - all steam and turbines. It’s not fair to use this to just make the comparison to nuclear power alone.