Capital cost estimation for advanced nuclear power plants

Advanced Construction Methods for New Nuclear Power Plants - NTR2009 Supplement

Relative to coal fired and natural gas fired power plants, nuclear power plants are more expensive to build but less expensive to run. This annex describes advanced construction methods to reduce nuclear power's construction costs, mainly by shortening the time needed to build a plant. Each of the methods described below has been used in one or more of the projects listed in Table IV-1. None is...

Example G Cost of construction of nuclear power plants

Table G.1 gives data, reproduced by permission of the Rand Corporation, from a report (Mooz, 1978) on 32 light water reactor (LWR) power plants constructed in USA. It is required to predict the capital cost involved in the construction of further LWR power plants. The notation used in Table G.1 is explained in Table G.2. The final 6 lines of data in Table G.1 relate to power plants for which th...

The Robots for Nuclear Power Plants

Nuclear energy becomes a major energy source worldwide even though the debating environmental and safety dispute. In order to cope with the issues related to the nuclear power plant, the uncertain human factors need to be minimized by automating the inspection and maintenance work done by human workers. The demands of robotic system in nuclear industry have been growing to ensure the safety of ...

Systems Design for Nuclear Power Plants

New Generation Nuclear Power Plants

− The radioactivity measurement techniques being developed within the EMRP “MetroFission” Joint Research Project (JRP) [1], are aimed at performing on-site activity measurements, by the development of a portable Triple to Double Coincidence Ratio (TDCR) system along with associated digital electronics. The TDCR standardisation method for beta-emitting radionuclides (e.g. H and Pu) produces an e...