The economic future of nuclear power

Daedalus

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 45-59

  Joskow, Paul L ^a   Parsons, John E ^a  

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EID: 70350044931     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/daed.2009.138.4.45     Document Type: Article

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1. The views expressed here are those of the authors and not of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2. International Status and Prospects of Nuclear Power (Vienna, Austria: International Atomic Energy Agency, 2008). Unless otherwise referenced, the information in this paper about the status of nuclear power in various countries is from this report or from the iaea's online pris data sets, www.iaea.or.at/programmes/a2/.
3. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col.html.
4. U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Review 2007, Table 9.1.
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6. During 2008, spot natural gas prices at Henry Hub, a major gas trading hub, fluctuated between about $4/MMBtu and about $14/MMBtu.
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13. One of these plants is tva's Watts Bar-2 plant. Construction of the plant began in 1972, was subsequently suspended, and was recently restarted after tva's apparently successful repowering of Browns Ferry-1.
14. The Future of Nuclear Power: An Interdisciplinary Study (mit, 2003). A short update was recently published, Update of the mit 2003 Future of Nuclear Power Study (mit, 2009).
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