{"id":629642,"date":"2024-01-20T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=629642"},"modified":"2024-01-20T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T06:49:20","slug":"nuclear-energy-players-need-to-take-90-uranium-price-spike-bill-or-shut-plants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nuclear-energy-players-need-to-take-90-uranium-price-spike-bill-or-shut-plants-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear energy players need to take 90% uranium price spike bill or shut plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A product has just gone up in price by 90% in 12 months. It now costs more than it has in 16 years. Most people would think twice about diving into a market like that.<\/p>\n<p>Not so those who run a nuclear power plant and must have the product in question: uranium. Shutting the plant down will cost you a fortune, says Nick Lawson of advisory firm Ocean Wall. Think $1 million a day. It could also make you extremely unpopular, with one in five households in the US reliant on nuclear energy. Worse, if you do have to do it, you can\u2019t flick a switch to turn it back on once your ore has arrived; restarting means new safety checks and regulatory approvals that can take months if not years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A product has just gone up in price by 90% in 12 months. It now costs more than it has in 16 years. Most people would think twice about diving into a market like that. Not so those who run a nuclear power plant and must have the product in question: uranium. Shutting the plant down will cost you a fortune, says Nick Lawson of advisory firm Ocean Wall. Think $1 million a day. It could also make you extremely unpopular, with one in five households in the US reliant on nuclear energy. Worse, if you do have to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}