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The Cost Of Decommissioning U.S. Reactors: Estimates And Experience

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  • Gene R. Heinze Fry

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Decommissioning is in its infancy, but our cost experience includes several dozen small, experimental reactors plus the 72 MWe Shippingport reactor. Decommissioning is only beginning at large reactors, but the insights already accumulated allow some use of this experience in future estimates. In this chapter, Gene Heinze Fry compares generic cost estimates plus the data for a total of 21 closed U.S. reactors. Despite the common assumption about the efficiencies that will come with more decommissioning experience, Fry finds a complete lack of scale economies. This could have implications for rates of collection, sufficiency of accumulated funds, and equity issues tied to future generations.

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  • Gene R. Heinze Fry, 1991. "The Cost Of Decommissioning U.S. Reactors: Estimates And Experience," The Energy Journal, , vol. 12(1_suppl), pages 87-104, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:enejou:v:12:y:1991:i:1_suppl:p:87-104
    DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol12-NoSI-7
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