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0 pointsPanzer043y ago0 comments

It’s on the order of a few years for solar and wind, if I recall.

It sounds hilariously optimistic to me that ROEI for nuclear would be days/weeks. The amount of infrastructure required to support a nuclear plant is huge.

Regardless, so long as ROEI is reasonably positive, then cost is all that really matters (and regardless cost should include the effects of ROEI anyway)

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Schroedingersat3y ago

Look up an LCA or fermi estimate it yourself. It's roughly on par with solar (4mo-2yr depending on just how unreliable it is).

The biggest part they don't usually include is a couple thousand people driving to and from and working for 20 years, but even that is tiny.

The mines (especially in a mass expansion scenario) are a little worse. Each fuel load takes up to a few months to pay off from a low yield open pit mine. The industry always uses Ranger or Cigar Lake for comparison which are anomalously high yield.

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Schroedingersat3y ago

Look up an LCA or fermi estimate it yourself. It's roughly on par with solar (4mo-2yr depending on just how unreliable it is).

The biggest part they don't usually include is a couple thousand people driving to and from and working for 20 years, but even that is tiny.

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