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Hydrofluoric acid and Nuclear fission reactors

Their prices have moved together.

Hydrofluoric acid (chemical) and Nuclear fission reactors (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: conversion input

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Uranium concentrate is turned into uranium hexafluoride using hydrogen fluoride before enrichment. Conversion is a small specialist market with few plants and privately negotiated prices, so the acid proxy and uranium show almost no relation, with monthly moves correlating at -0.02.

  • -0.02 monthly change correlation
  • 0.20 12-month change correlation
  • 0.77 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.