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The economics of nuclear fuel reprocessing
Peter Lloyd Jones,David Pearce +1 more
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This article is published in Energy Economics.The article was published on 1981-10-01. It has received 1 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nuclear reprocessing.read more
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Accumulation of nuclear spent fuel from UK power stations
TL;DR: In the absence of a reprocessing industry able to deal with large quantities of irradiated nuclear fuel, it is expected that the bulk of the oxide spent fuel discharged from nuclear reactors will be stored for some decades as discussed by the authors.
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Social cost-benefit analysis and nuclear futures☆
TL;DR: In this article, the usefulness of cost-benefit analysis in making nuclear power investment decisions is considered and the essence of social costbenefit analysis is outlined and shown to be unavoidably value-laden.
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Worldwide nuclear-plant performance
John Surrey,Stephen Thomas +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the performance of different reactor systems to identify the determinants of plant performance, examine the evidence of technological maturity, and discover the principal causes of outage or unavailability.
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Capital cost escalation and the choice of power stations
TL;DR: The UK Energy Commission has endorsed the case for nuclear power at baseload, on the grounds of its reduced vulnerability to fuel price escalation as mentioned in this paper. Yet with a future climate of tighter environmental restrictions and escalating capital costs, nuclear power could be an ominous liability.