$8.3 B: A Big Price Tag For a DOE Dice Roll

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5. BAD DATA!

Reprocessing plus breeder reactors are much more expensive than light water reactors today, which in turn cost more than wind-generated electricity.
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Fast reactors would be somewhat more expensive, but Argonne National Lab, the only Lab to operate a fast reactor doesn't consider them prohibitively so. Besides, Argonne calculates that we only need a handful of fast reactors to serve as "actinide burners" for a fleet of light water reactors.

The costs given are also bad. Light water reactors compete with coal at a bussbar cost of about 2 cents per kwh. Wind doesn't compete with that. Wind competes with gas at about 5 cents per kwh.

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