Uranium -- A Small Part of Electricity
Cost*
Reserves
Price
of U
3,192,000
t
$80/kg
15,400,000
t
$130/kg
?
$14,000/kg
$0.003
U at
$14,000/kg
Fast reactors
Electricity/kWh
Thermal
reactors
$0.20
– 0.30
U
at $7,000/kg
$0.05
– 0.15
North
America price range
$0.15
$7,000/kg
$0.0015
$70/kg
* D.Lightfoot et al, “Nuclear Fission Energy is Inexhaustible”, Proc.
Climate Change Technology
Conference, EIC, Ottawa, May 2006