Past, present and future

摘要

For some time now, it has been the received wisdom that the nuclear industry has to be economically competitive to survive in the current market. For some time, Westinghouse has put forward the target of $1000/kW for construction costs and 3 cent/kWh operating costs as an objective. There is still a way to go on achieving the target on construction costs, but the target on operating costs has already been met.