Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time since Fukushima

Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc... by eunos on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:35PM (#30833176)

Cost is said about 10x higher than land based Uranium extraction. However uranium cost proportion of nuclear energy cost is rather low (10%).

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Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc... by stjohnswarts on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:54PM (#30834829)

but 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

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Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc... by eunos on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:18PM (#30835066)

I think the idea is that hoping that scaling seawater uranium extraction will drive down the cost further.

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