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Title: Nuclear plant cancellations: causes, costs, and consequences

Abstract

This study was commissioned in order to help quantify the effects of nuclear plant cancellations on the Nation's electricity prices. This report presents a historical overview of nuclear plant cancellations through 1982, the costs associated with those cancellations, and the reasons that the projects were terminated. A survey is presented of the precedents for regulatory treatment of the costs, the specific methods of cost recovery that were adopted, and the impacts of these decisions upon ratepayers, utility stockholders, and taxpayers. Finally, the report identifies a series of other nuclear plants that remain at risk of canellation in the future, principally as a result of similar demand, finance, or regulatory problems cited as causes of cancellation in the past. The costs associated with these potential cancellations are estimated, along with their regional distributions, and likely methods of cost recovery are suggested.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington DC (United States). Energy Information Administration, Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels
OSTI Identifier:
6211281
Report Number(s):
DOE/EIA-0392
ON: DE83011614
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; DECOMMISSIONING; COST; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ELECTRIC POWER; PRICES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SHUTDOWNS; CONSTRUCTION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER; POWER PLANTS; PUBLIC UTILITIES; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; 210801* - Nuclear Power Plants- Economics- Construction & Operation- (-1987); 290600 - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy

Citation Formats

. Nuclear plant cancellations: causes, costs, and consequences. United States: N. p., 1983. Web. doi:10.2172/6211281.
. Nuclear plant cancellations: causes, costs, and consequences. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6211281
. 1983. "Nuclear plant cancellations: causes, costs, and consequences". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6211281. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6211281.
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year = {Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1983},
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