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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’ll come back eventually unless fusion takes over. The power density promises are simply too attractive.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Never mind that pesky burning taste, imagine the power savings!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It always smells like bloody sinus in our house after changing the wafer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That means it's working!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The mining and processing of the "fuel" is not. The cost of the plants and the risks neither. That's why nuclear is slowly losing to regenerative.

Btw, from the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024 > Key Insights:

Russia is also playing a key role in the supply of fuel services, involving uranium mining, conversion, and fuel assembly manufacturing for Soviet-designed VVER pressurized water reactors, of which there are 19 in the E.U. and 15 in Ukraine. International sanctions have had little effect on the business. On the contrary, the share of Russian supply of natural uranium, conversion, and enrichment services to the E.U. all increased between pre-war year 2021 and 2023; VVER fuel imports doubled.

And you can see all of my points confirmed in that report.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well that the enormous initial cost and time to construct

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I think it's losing due to the cost of the electricity over its lifetime