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submitted 1 year ago by Nirile@slrpnk.net to c/energy@slrpnk.net

As the title says, I'm interested in this community's perceptions on nuclear energy.

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[-] greengnu@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Completely fair.

An EROI of about 7 is considered break-even economically for developed countries and the US average EROI across all generating technologies is about 40 (and going down as the EROI of coal and oil is going down due to increasing energy requirements). The current estimated EROI for current generation nuclear reactors (that have huge rooms for improvement thanks to nuclear recycling being currently banned) is 80 for their operational lifetime (Which is actually a fraction of its estimated safe lifetime which further reduces the net EROI artificially to increase safety margins).

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