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Re:Europe braces for mobile network blackouts by hypertele-Xii on Thursday September 29, 2022 @07:29PM (#33028771)
> we are talking a demand in the thousands of tons per year.

France has 56 nuclear plants in operation. A cursory web search puts a 1TW reactor at about 30 tonnes of processed uranium per year. 56*30=1680.

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Re:Europe braces for mobile network blackouts by Jon_Lowtek on Thursday September 29, 2022 @08:16PM (#33029138)
8200 tons per year according to: https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...

8700 tons per year according to: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264796/uranium-consumpti...

quite hard to find good numbers, but the size "thousands of tons" seems to fit. The thread starter proposed that Europa, not only France, should build more nuclear power plants, so we may even be in the tens of thousands of tons per year for the whole continent.

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