Comparison of Small Modular Reactor and Large Nuclear Reactor Fuel Cost

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21220%2F14%3A00227220" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21220/14:00227220 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/epe.2014.65009" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/epe.2014.65009</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/epe.2014.65009" target="_blank" >10.4236/epe.2014.65009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comparison of Small Modular Reactor and Large Nuclear Reactor Fuel Cost

Original language description

Small modular reactors (SMRs) offer simple, standardized, and safe modular designs for new nuc- lear reactor construction. They are factory built, requiring smaller initial capital investment and facilitating shorter construction times. SMRs also promisecompetitive economy when compared with the current reactor fleet. Construction cost of a majority of the projects, which are mostly in their design stages, is not publicly available, but variable costs can be determined from fuel enrichment, average burn-up, and plant thermal efficiency, which are public parameters for many near-term SMR projects. The fuel cost of electricity generation for selected SMRs and large reac- tors is simulated, including calculation of optimal tails assay in the uranium enrichment process. The results are compared between one another and with current generation large reactor designs providing a rough comparison of the long-term economics of a new nuclear reactor project. SMRs are predicted to have higher fue

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

JF - Nuclear energy

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/TE01020455" target="_blank" >TE01020455: Centre for Advanced Nuclear Technologies (CANUT)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Energy and Power Engineering

ISSN

1947-3818

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

82-94

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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