# Natural gas and Uranium

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/natural-gas-and-uranium/

[Natural gas](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/natural_gas/) (energy) and [Uranium](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/uranium/) (energy): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: competing generation

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Nuclear power competes with gas-fired power, and gas price spikes revive political support for reactors, but that works over years, not months. Monthly moves barely correlate (0.04), which fits uranium's contract-based pricing and long reactor lead times.

- **0.04** monthly change correlation
- **0.01** 12-month change correlation
- **0.29** fitted elasticity

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