# Nuclear fission reactors and Steel

Their prices have moved together.

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

[Nuclear fission reactors](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_fission/) (energy) and [Steel](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/steel/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: construction input

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Reactor vessels, containment liners and reinforcing bars need large amounts of steel, alongside cement. Construction cost dominates nuclear economics, yet the uranium proxy cannot reflect it, so monthly moves correlate at only 0.05 with the steel index.

- **0.05** monthly change correlation
- **0.11** 12-month change correlation
- **0.37** fitted elasticity

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