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Title: Economic incentives of short out-of-reactor time for fast breeder reactor fuel

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OSTI ID:7277866

Economic benefits (primarily reduced uranium ore and enrichment expenditures) can be realized by reducing the LMFBR out-of-reactor fuel cycle time only if process cost penalties and R and D costs can be minimized. The results of the evaluation presented show the potential gross benefits of reducing the out-of-reactor time and the effects of various associated cost penalties on these benefits. The gross benefit results estimate the potential savings in electrical power generation in the next 50 years using constant 1975 dollars and discounting the costs at 7/sup 1///sub 2/ percent per year.

Research Organization:
Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AT(45-1)-2170
OSTI ID:
7277866
Report Number(s):
HEDL-SA-978; CONF-751101-80; TRN: 76-014360
Resource Relation:
Conference: Joint meeting of the American Nuclear Society and the Atomic Industrial Forum, San Francisco, CA, USA, 16 Nov 1975
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English