Nuclear Power: Understanding the Economic Risks and Uncertainties

• Tác giả: Ioannis N Kessides
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.48 Nuclear engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 297847
• Chủ đề: 1. Alternative Energy Sources Q420; 2. Electric Utilities L940; 3. Energy: Government Policy Q480; 4. Industry Studies: Utilities and Transportation: Government Policy L980

Tóm tắt

 This paper identifies the fundamental elements and critical research tasks of a comprehensive analysis of the costs and benefits of nuclear power relative to investments in alternative baseload technologies. The proposed framework seeks to: (i) identify the set of expected parameter values under which nuclear power becomes cost competitive relative to alternative generating technologies
  (ii) identify the main risk drivers and quantify their impacts on the costs of nuclear power
  (iii) estimate the nuclear power option value
  (iv) assess the nexus between electricity market structure and the commercial attractiveness of nuclear power
  (v) evaluate the economics of smaller sized nuclear reactors
  (vi) identify options for strengthening the institutional underpinnings of the international safeguards regime
  and (vii) evaluate the proliferation resistance of new generation reactors and fuel cycles.