Using Federal Credit to Mitigate Critical Financial Risks on Early Orders for New Reactors: Based on the Business Case for Nuclear Power (July 2002) A report prepared for the US Department of Energy

摘要

A next generation of nuclear power plants in the US would be built within more of a “risk-based” marketplace than the regulated one in which the previous plants were built. During the 1990s, utilities acquired more confidence in the current LWR and PWR technology and their ability to prevent accidents and curb downtime. Operators dramatically raised capacity factors for the US fleet of 103 reactors from below 70% in the late 1980s to well over 90% in 2002. Continued low and stable fuel prices (