| You're not comparing like for like. First in a PWR (the only nuclear technology viable even with subsidy) 1kg gets you 150MWh not 24GWh. This is even more misleading than pretending a solar panel will produce 1.3kW/m^2 every hour of the year or pretending a lithium battery is 10kWh/kg based on the voltage and the density of pure lithium. Second the uranium is only a tiny portion of the unrecyclable waste and a miniscule fraction of the reactor. The net mass power density is not much better than wind, or par with wind and worse than glassless solar. Naval reactors have higher power density but have much stricter operating conditions and costs that cannot even be borne with tax money covering the bill. Solar + battery has powered a multi day flight. Nuclear has not. Additionally comparing cost for cost, nuclear requires just as much storage as renewables because storage is vastly cheaper than paying $12000/kW for capacity you only use for 100 hours a year. In a context where you're considering the labour and resources required to provide the energy with fission, storage has been solved for a decade. If we come back to the real world and consider the only metric that matters of joules of radiative forcing removed per dollar then there are only a tiny handful of places you'd consider putting a new nuclear reactor, and then only once you'd paid to maximise the renewables in the region. |