European new build and fuel cycles in the 21st century

Roelofs, F.; Hart, J.C.; Heek, Aliki van

doi:10.1016/j.nucengdes.2011.04.002

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“…The size, efficiency and capacity factors of the reactors considered, taken from Roelofs et al (2011), are given in Table 5.…”

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“…We take the reference values for the expected construction costs, fuel cycle costs, operation and maintenance costs and also the confidence interval or standard deviation of these costs from van Heek et al (2012) and Roelofs et al (2011). Van Heek et al (2012) use the G4-ECONS (version 2.0) tool (see Williams (2007)) to compute the levelized unit electric costs, as well as its components capital, O&M and fuel cycle costs.…”

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“…These values are reported in Table 6. Table 7 gives the expectations and standard deviations of the construction costs, computed from cost ranges reported in van Heek et al (2012) and Roelofs et al (2011). Also listed in Table 7 are the expectations and standard deviations of the combined O&M and fuel cycle costs that are computed from the corresponding cost ranges reported in Table 6.…”

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Keywords:Optimal nuclear reactor portfolio Uncertain reactor construction costs Real option analysis for nuclear power plants Optimal portfolio analysis for nuclear power plants Capital costs, fuel, operation and maintenance (O&M) costs, and electricity prices play a key role in the economics of nuclear power plants. Often standardized reactor designs are required to be locally adapted, which often impacts the project plans and the supply chain. It then becomes difficult to ascertain how these changes will eventually reflect in costs, which makes the capital costs component of nuclear power plants uncertain. Different nuclear reactor types compete economically by having either lower and less uncertain construction costs, increased efficiencies, lower and less uncertain fuel cycles and O&M costs etc. The decision making process related to nuclear power plants requires a holistic approach that takes into account the key economic factors and their uncertainties. We here present a decision-support tool that satisfactorily takes into account the major uncertainties in the cost elements of a nuclear power plant, to provide an optimal portfolio of nuclear reactors. The portfolio so obtained, under our model assumptions and the constraints considered, maximizes the combined returns for a given level of risk or uncertainty. These decisions are made using a combination of real option theory and mean-variance portfolio optimization.

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“…1 Nuclear fuel has a life time of approximately three years in a typical light water reactor before it is retired or recycled. 2 The spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is stored in cooling pools to allow the shortest lived radionuclides to dissipate. After this time, the waste constituents are a cocktail of various fission products containing approximately 95% of the parent 238 U while the remaining 5% is a mixture of lanthanides (3.1%), plutonium (0.9%), minor actinides (0.1%), and other short and long lived fission products.…”

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“…These gains may have a significant impact on the waste repository performances, since one could envisage the reduction of the needed repositories, the reduction of the performance uncertainties and the reduction of the potential abnormal evolution (e.g., human intrusion) consequences [28]. As for geological repository footprint, a reduction of a factor in the range 3 to 9 can be expected, as an extrapolation from previous studies for comparable scenarios applied to single world regions (see e.g., [29]), would suggest.…”

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Sustainable Nuclear Fuel Cycles and World Regional Issues

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Abstract:In the present paper we have attempted to associate quantified impacts with a forecasted nuclear energy development in different world regions, under a range of hypotheses on the energy demand growth. It gives results in terms of availability of uranium resources, required deployment of fuel cycle facilities and reactor types. In particular, the need to achieve short doubling times with future fast reactors is investigated and quantified in specific world regions. It has been found that a crucial feature of any world scenario study is to provide not only trends for an idealized "homogeneous" description of the global world, but also trends for different regions in the world. These regions may be selected using rather simple criteria (mostly of a geographical type), in order to apply different hypotheses for energy demand growth, fuel cycle strategies and the implementation of various reactor types for the different regions. This approach was an attempt to avoid focusing on selected countries, in particular on those where no new significant energy demand growth is expected, but instead to provide trends and conclusions that account for the features of countries that will be major players in the world energy development in the future.

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European new build and fuel cycles in the 21st century

Cited by 6 publications

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Decision-support tool for assessing future nuclear reactor generation portfolios

Decision-support tool for assessing future nuclear reactor generation portfolios

1,2,4-Triazine-picolinamide functionalized, nonadentate chelates for the segregation of lanthanides(iii) and actinides(iii) in biphasic systems

Sustainable Nuclear Fuel Cycles and World Regional Issues

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