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#045 The Future of Nuclear Energy: Politics, Culture, and Technology with Mark Nelson
Smart Friends
The Nuclear Value Proposition
The cost of the fuel and nuclear is so small that uranium going up or down in cost makes almost no difference to the price of generating electricity from nuclear. The bulk of the cost come from people, hopefully, in nuclear - those tend to be extremely long lived, well paid jobs. Germany staffs their plants with less than half the number of permanent employees that you would expect in a similar American plant.
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