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Cynical_Cabinet t1_iubsb4o wrote

Reply to comment by ok46reddit in Poland chooses US to build its first nuclear power plant by Vegeta9001

The real problem with the mass production strategy for decreasing costs is that the "mass" is going to have to be extremely large for it to overcome the loss in efficiency by using smaller reactors. Likely they would need to be produced in the thousands to really drive the cost down by a significant amount, and I can't see the market being that large. It's going to be pretty much impossible to scale up that production.

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ok46reddit t1_iubwhmv wrote

> Likely they would need to be produced in the thousands to really drive the cost down by a significant amount,

This is exactly what will occur.

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basscycles t1_iubxxgl wrote

Russia's uranium becomes valuable and strategic in the process.

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ok46reddit t1_iubyc0z wrote

So does Australia's uranium for that matter.

Kazakhstan, Canada, Namibia...

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basscycles t1_iuefuhh wrote

Pretty happy for Australia, Canada, Nambia and Kazakhstan to have economies, Russia not so much.

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