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Originally Posted by Bicycle Bob
It currently takes at least nine years of operation for a nuke to pay back the oil that has to go into producing and fueling it.
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Why do you people go on repeating nonsense like this? Do you think we're all unable to do simple arithmetic?
Building a nuclear plant takes no more material or energy that building any other construction of similar size, and is roughly comparable to building the 2000 or so 1-MWatt wind turbines that would be needed to generate the same amount of power. If you use construction cost as a proxy for energy input, here's a wind energy site
How much do wind turbines cost? | Windustry which puts the cost of wind turbine construction at between $1.2-2.6 million per MWatt, in the same cost per MWatt ballpark as a nuclear plant.