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J Cost-Effectiveness of Electrical Generation Technologies
Pages 786-791

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From page 786...
... , in which they have adopted a set of consistent assumptions. The Mitigation Panel has decided to use EPRI's approach and assumptions on capital cost, fixed charge rate, fixed operating and maintenance costs, variable operating and maintenance costs, and fuel cost.
From page 787...
... If the nuclear power plant construction time in France, Japan, and the United Kingdom can be achieved in the United States, the cost are likely to be in the low end of the range. However, if current experience in the United States as to the licensing and construction time are evidence of what the future will be, nuclear power costs are more likely to be in the high end of the range.
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From page 789...
... For example, natural gas plants have been built in the United States for many years and there is a great deal of experience as to their construction and operating costs on a massive scale, so the reliability of these numbers is likely to be higher than that of solar energy where there is On O 16 z 1 4 =~ 10 8' _ 4 _ ~ O LL L1J O Solar Thermal Renewables $1 27/t CON ~Nuclear ~ Gas ~ U.S.
From page 790...
... Assumes 50 percent thermal efficiency and no gas price escalation for low-cost and EPRI efficiency plus 4 percent annual fuel escalation for high-cost estimates. eHigh estimate assumes capital cost twice EPRI value.
From page 791...
... It is not clear at this point, however, how such complex taxing would affect the cost of electricity and the cost-effectiveness of nuclear power to shareholders. Similar carbon taxes would make renewable technologies competitive.


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