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Advanced design nuclear power plants: competitive, economical electricity (1992)

Auteur	USAEC
Datum	juni 1992
Classificatie	6.01.0.10/64 (KOSTEN)
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report presents an updated analysis of the projected cost of electricity
from new baseload power plants beginning operation around the year 2000. Included 
in the study are: 1) advanced-design, standardized nuclear power plants, 2) low 
emissions coal-fired power plants, 3) gasified coal-fired power plants, and 4) 
natural gas-fired power plants.

This analysis shows that electricity from advanced-design, standardized nuclear 
power plants will be economically competitive with all other baseload electric 
generating system alternatives. This does not mean that any one source of electric 
power is always preferable to another. Rather, what this analysis indicates is that, 
as utilities and others begin planning for future baseload power plants, advanced-
design nuclear plants should be considered an economically viable option to be 
included in their detailed studies of alternatives.

Even with aggressive and successful conservation, efficiency and demand-side 
management programs, some new baseload electric supply will be needed during 
the 1990s and into the future. The baseload generating plants required in the 1990s 
are currently being designed and constructed. For those required shortly after 2000, 
the planning and alternatives assessment process must start now. It takes up to ten 
years to plan, design, license and construct a new coal-fired or nuclear fueled 
baseload electric generating plant and about six years for a natural gas-fired plant.

This study indicates that for 600-megawatt blocks of capacity, advanced-design 
nuclear plants could supply electricity at an average of 4.5 cents per kilowatt-hour 
versus 4.8 cents per kilowatt-hour for an advanced pulverized-coal plant, 5.0 cents 
per kilowatt-hour for a gasified-coal combined cycle plant, and 4.3 cents per 
kilowatt-hour for a gas-fired combined cycle combustion turbine plant.

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