[bigfudge]

Who is actually doing this work? I have had an idea for a kind of 'public meta-analysis' site, where we could give simple headline figures for important questions like this based on consensus estimates. A bit like the Cochrane or Mental Elf, but for everything and producing a dataset of actual numbers to be used in arguments like this. It's so frustrating in comment threads like this that nobody actually has reasonable numbers for the fundamental assumptions of the arguments on either side.

[spiralx]

This paper has an overview of the various things that go into a nuclear power plant along with figures:

https://www.stormsmith.nl/Resources/m36materials20190927F.pd...

It's from the Nuclear Consulting Group who I've never heard of, so I couldn't say how accurate it is.

https://www.nuclearconsult.com/

This also has an overview of some of the materials used:

https://matmatch.com/blog/materials-in-nuclear-reactors/