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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@lemmy.world to c/energy
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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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[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cool story. Yet it’s coal plants and gas plants are going up everywhere in first world countries for baseline supply. That’s another 2 decades of fossil fuels.

[–] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or we can just not pay them and let them go bankrupt by putting solar and batteries directly on loads instead..

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hahaha