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 (%)

Cost of Feed U₃O₈ ($/lb U₃O₈)

Cost of Conversion to UF₆ ($/kgU)

Cost of SWU ($/kgSWU)

Fabrication cost ($/kgHM)

Fabrication preset

Compute feed mass from given product mass

Compute product mass from given feed mass

Output fuel costs

Output fuel costs per kWh (equilibrium)

Average discharge burnup (MWd/kgHM)

Thermal efficiency (%)

Product Enrichment (wt %)

LEU

Feed mass (kg U in U₃O₈)

Product mass (kg U)

Tails mass (kg)

U in UF₆ mass (kg)

SWU (kg)

Outputs

Reload feed (¢/kWh)

Conversion (¢/kWh)

Reload SWU (¢/kWh)

Fabrication (¢/kWh)

Reload total (¢/kWh)

Required mined material (gU/MWh)

High-level waste (gHM/MWh)

Case title (for plot)

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

Nuclear Fuel Cost calculator

Enrichment settings

Unit costs

Mode

Reactor settings

Outputs

See Also