Assertion: plutonium | /r/HasProperty | free
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text: The costs of MOX fuel fabrication, assuming that the plutonium was free (that is, obtained as surplus from the nuclear weapons program), would be about $1,900 per kilogram in 1992 dollars, exclusive of taxes and insurance.
text: The higher cost of MOX means that annual fuel costs for a full MOX core would be approximately $15 million more than uranium fuel per year for a 1,000 megawatt reactor, or about $450 million over its operating life (in 1992 dollars), even if the plutonium were free.
text: It is clear that so long as uranium prices are relatively low, the use of MOX fuel is uneconomical even under the most favorable circumstances: when the plutonium itself is free and uranium is assumed to be more expensive than current spot market prices.