Nuclear Fuel Cost calculator

Use this to calculate how much natural uranium, separative work, conversion, and fuel fabrication you need to get a given amount of enriched uranium at a certain enrichment, and how much it will cost. Based on burnup and efficiency, this can also compute how natural uranium you use per kWh generated. Learn more about isotopes here.

Tails assay (wt %)
Feed assay (wt %)
Conversion losses (%)

LEU

Outputs

Abbrevs:
  • U - Uranium
  • HM - Heavy Metal (e.g. Uranium, Neptunium, Pu, Cm, etc.)
  • kWh - Kilowatt-hour electric
  • MWh - Megawatt-hour electric
  • MWd - Megawatt-day thermal
  • SWU - Separative Work Unit

See Also

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About Dr. Nick Touran, Ph.D., P.E.

Nick Touran is a nuclear engineer with expertise in advanced nuclear reactor design, reactor development, and the history of nuclear power. After getting a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, he spent 15 years at TerraPower in Seattle working on core design, business development, software development, and configuration management. He is now a consultant involved in advising and assisting numerous reactor development and deployment efforts. He is also a licensed professional engineer in Nuclear Engineering.

Nick has been active in public education around nuclear since 2006 as the founder of whatisnuclear.com. He has spoken at numerous institutions, schools, and public events, and was once featured on NPR’s Science Friday. Recently, he has coordinated the digitization of over 45 historical nuclear films.

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