Nuclear plant cancellations: causes, costs, and consequences

Technical Report · Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6211281· OSTI ID:6211281

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.

• Research Organization: US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington DC (United States). Energy Information Administration, Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels
• OSTI ID: 6211281
• Report Number(s): DOE/EIA-0392; ON: DE83011614
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

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