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Would the fuel efficiency be sufficiently bad to make the fuel costs relevant to the cost of running the plant, though?
by rcxdude 4mo ago
Would the fuel efficiency be sufficiently bad to make the fuel costs relevant to the cost of running the plant, though?
- cyberax 4mo agoYes, it would. Fuel is around 2-4% of the total costs for a regular nuclear power plant, but that's because regular reactors can burn it deeply. This reactor will only burn a couple of percents of the available fuel, so the fuel costs will probably be around 10-20 times higher. BTW, this tradeoff can be acceptable for some very specific applications. Kilopower ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower ) is designed to use passive regulation.