>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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Chyzwar 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	leonidasrup 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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Leherenn 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I believe the standard is 4h of storage.