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Cameco Ord Shs T.CCO

Alternate Symbol(s):  CCJ

Cameco Corporation is engaged in providing uranium fuel to generate clean, reliable baseload electricity around the globe. The Company also offers nuclear fuel processing services, refinery services and manufactures fuel assemblies and reactor components. Its segments include uranium, fuel services and Westinghouse. The uranium segment is involved in the exploration for, mining, milling, purchase and sale of uranium concentrate. The fuel services segment is involved in the refining, conversion and fabrication of uranium concentrate and the purchase and sale of conversion services. The Westinghouse segment is engaged in the nuclear services businesses. Its uranium projects include Millennium, Yeelirrie, and Kintyre. The Cree Extension-Millennium project is a Cameco-operated joint venture located in the southeastern portion of Canada's Athabasca Basin. The Yeelirrie deposit is located approximately 650-kilometer (Km) northeast of Perth and about 750 km south of its Kintyre project.


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Comment by Clemxb7on Jan 27, 2021 9:43pm
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RE:RE:It takes .00681 lbs of U to generate 1 Megawatt hour

RE:RE:It takes .00681 lbs of U to generate 1 Megawatt hour You are 100% correct 1000kw = 1 megawatt My post does have some sloppy writing though the math is solid. MY CORRECTION IN CAPS

Here is where I got the above info  “It takes .00681 lbs of U to generate 1 Megawatt hour“:
 
https://www.freeingenergy.com/math/nuclear-fuel-uranium-weight-pound-kwh-mwh-m125/#:~:text=Nuclear%20power%20plants%20require%20very,pounds%20of%20enriched%20uranium%20fuel.

So it cost $.20 (USD) in raw uranium to generate a megawatt hour of electricity. Math = .00681 x $30.00 = $.2043 CORRECT

Price of electricity in North America varies widely from about a low of ~$.10 (CAD) (Per kilowatt Hour) ( Hydroelectricity - Quebec, Manitoba, BC) to a high (per kilowatt hour) of around ~$.23 - $.27 (USD) (Hawaii, California, New York). The average retail kilowatt hour in the US is ~$13.50 (USD). THIS IS A MISTAKE SHOULD BE $.135 or 13.5 CENTS per kilowatt hour. Decimal place was wrong though I still used 13.5 cents for my further calcs.
https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/

So average RETAIL revenue generated from a megawatt hour of electricity in the US is $135.00.THIS STATEMENT IS CORECT $.135 x 1000 (kilowatts) = $135.00 for a MEGAWATT

So the cost of uranium per megawatt in the US is 1/675 (THIS IS WRONG SHOULD BE 1/150 BUT IT DOESN’T AFFECT THE REST OF THE MATH) of the total cost at $30/lb. If uranium tripled in price it would add $.40 in cost to the average retail megawatt hour price 0f $135.00 (CORRECT)

THE FOLLOWING STAMENTS ARE STILL CORECT:

Really what a Utility pays for Uranium is pretty much a non-issue. The big costs in a reactor is the build cost and ongoing financing then labour. The cost of the Uranium to run the whole thing is almost an afterthought. I wouldn’t be surprised if the average utility nuclear reactor plant spends more on PPE than Uranium. OK HERE I SHOULD SAY THE COST OF THE CHEMICALS TO TREAT THE WATER IN A NUCLEAR PLANT IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE COST OF URANIUM. PROBABLY A MORE FAIR STATEMENT.

So I guess my point is Uranium is not cost prohibitive to the Utilities even if prices were to quadruple so that is not a really hard pressure on the price of U. CORRECT

I knew U wasn’t a high cost in electrical generation. Now I know it’s almost a non-cost. (LOL)
I got all this info from Google.

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