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Solar energy now overlaps in cost with nuclear fuel alone for "cheap" modular reactors (energy-utilities.com)

submitted 1 year ago by schroedingershat to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] schroedingershat 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Pu came from either a graphite pile or an LWR like all other Pu and wasn't involved in any process that made more than was inserted and turned into waste. MOX with extra steps and no closed cycle is still just MOX.

Also it shut down in 1992 because of air in the molten hot sodium. What do you call hot oxidising sodium?

So far we've got:

Combining oxygen with sodium isn't fire.

Running for a total of 6 months in ten years is 96% availability.

Net consumption of fissile material with no attempt at reprocessing into fuel for another cycle is breeding.

Net importing electricity from germany (and importing every month except for spring and autumn where local wind and solar is most abundant) is exporting "large amounts".

Do you even understand how ridiculous you sound? Like is this a self-humiliation thing?