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p1mrxyesterday at 9:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Take these numbers with a grain of salt because I got them by chatting with AIs, but if you're producing electricity from HALEU, then centrifuges require reinvesting <1% of the output, whereas historical calutrons required 200% (useless) and modern technology could potentially bring that down to 10%.

So calutrons will always be less energy efficient than centrifuges, but if the capital cost and construction time is low enough, calutrons might still be economically viable.


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KennyBlankenyesterday at 9:42 PM

If we wanted to find out what an LLM thought we'd ask the LLM. Don't be a meat proxy.

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

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