Nuclear fission reactors: Relationships
Every element and industry that Nuclear fission reactors is linked to, and how. Each pair has its own card explaining the relationships between the two.
- Uranium: Uranium is the fuel of almost all fission reactors, but it is a small part of the cost of nuclear power, so reactors keep running through uranium price swings. The risk lies in concentrated supply: Kazakhstan for mining, and Russia for conversion and enrichment. (researched)
- Thorium: Thorium cannot run a reactor on its own: it must first be bred into fissile uranium-233 inside a reactor started on uranium or plutonium. That is why it matters most to India, which has large thorium resources and has built its three-stage nuclear programme around reaching it. (researched)
- Steam turbines and thermal power plants: Energy flows from nuclear fission reactors to steam turbines and thermal power plants; their prices have moved together.
- Data centres: Their prices have moved together.
- Data centres and cloud: Data centres and cloud depends on nuclear fission reactors.
- District heating and cooling networks: Energy flows from nuclear fission reactors to district heating and cooling networks.
- Hafnium: Nuclear fission reactors needs hafnium.
- Hydrofluoric acid: Their prices have moved together.
- Natural gas: Their prices have moved together.
- Nuclear fuel transport: Energy flows from nuclear fuel transport to nuclear fission reactors.
- Ship propulsion: Energy flows from nuclear fission reactors to ship propulsion.
- Steel: Their prices have moved together.
- Water: Nuclear fission reactors needs water.
- Zirconium: Nuclear fission reactors needs zirconium.