ANALYSIS OF THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF LOW-CAPACITY NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

摘要

Autonomous low-capacity nuclear power plants arc best suited as reliable sources of power in remote regions which are difficult to reach. This article presents a complete study of the cost-effectiveness of low-capacity nuclear power plants and possible ways to increase it. The economic acceptability of an almost two-fold increase of the run time of KLT-40S and ABV-6 reactors by switching to UO_2 with a larger load is analyzed. The possible organizational and economic mechanisms for implementing low-capacity nuclear-power designs are determined. At the present time, the optimal organizational form for implementing low-capacity nuclear power projects is a public-private partnership. The financial and economic instruments which work effectively within the framework of state-private partnership and which take account of the specific nature of nuclear technology are licensing and the construction-transfer-operation arrangement.