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by modo_mario 91 days ago
>Levelized Cost of Energy for solar is 30-60$ and 100-200$ for nuclear.

With the storage for shitty winter weeks? What's the source on that one? Mind you I love solar since i'd like to go relatively off grid one day but i've heard too much bullshit around this.

>but it is not clear where you would buy fuel for it, It might still be a supply chain risk since Russia and Kazakhstan are the main players there.

There's a lot of locations from my understanding and a lot more that don't produce anything simply because Russia and Kazakhstan and such don't make it worthwile. It's a tiny share of the cost of production in the end.

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Russia and Kazakhstan control almost 50% of global production and enrichment of uranium. Even today 17% EU supply come from Russia.

Uranium mining is not pretty, read about "in situ leaching" mining.

Kazakhstan does uranium mining but doesn't do uranium enrichment. Other big uranium mining countries, which don't do uranium enrichment, are: Namibia, Canada, Australia, Uzbekistan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Uranium_Mining_Prod...

"The following countries are known to operate enrichment facilities: Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, the Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium#Global_enrich...

Uranium enrichment is military and therefor politically very sensitive process.

I believe the standard is 4h of storage.