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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Subject: Re: Breeder reactors
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.191402.28161@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:14:02 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
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- In article <1992Dec21.181018.21422@cs.rochester.edu>, dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
- >In article <BzMDJq.2KJ.1@cs.cmu.edu> 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom) writes:
- >
- >> Maybe it's just as well. The way I heard it, France is already reaching
- >> the point where the costs are becoming dominated by uranium ore
- >> recovery, as it gets rarer & rarer. And they've had nukes for what,
- >> 15 years? That's pretty short, especially considering all the other
- >> high-tech-costs in reactor operations.
- >
- >You heard wrong. Uranium prices are so depressed that mines are
- >closing. Spot market price is around $10/pound; the U-235 in one
- >pound of uranium can produce about 20,000 kWh of electricity. It
- >could increase in price by a factor of 20 or more and still not
- >dominate costs.
-
- Plus you can get processed stuff Really Cheap from mother Russia these days, IF
- you can outbid DoE's contracts :)
-
- Or are we accusing Russia of DUMPING uranium to keep prices down and drive
- (inefficient, goverment-subsidized) U.S. companies out of business.
-
-
- I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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