# Hydrofluoric acid and Nuclear fission reactors

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/hydrofluoric-acid-and-nuclear-fission-reactors/

[Hydrofluoric acid](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/hydrofluoric_acid/) (chemical) and [Nuclear fission reactors](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_fission/) (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.