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Cost is said about 10x higher than land based Uranium extraction. However uranium cost proportion of nuclear energy cost is rather low (10%).
by eunos 5y ago
Cost is said about 10x higher than land based Uranium extraction. However uranium cost proportion of nuclear energy cost is rather low (10%).
- stjohnswarts 5y agobut is uranium cost is 10% and you suddenly make it 10x as expensive, didn't you just essentially almost double the cost of the enterprise as a whole? say current costs: $10 is my uranium cost $90 is the rest total = $100 ocean extracted uranium: $100 is my new uranium cost $90 (as before) total = $190
- eunos 5y agoI think the idea is that hoping that scaling seawater uranium extraction will drive down the cost further.