The Future of the U.S. Nuclear Energy Industry,

摘要

A regional supply-demand-regulatory model of the U.S. electric utility industry is used to evaluate the derived demand for commercial nuclear reactors,raw uranium,and enrichment requirements for the period 1975-1995. The report briefly sketches the structure of the domestic nuclear energy industry,describes the engineering-econometric supply-demand system used for the analyses,and reports the conclusions of analysis for alternative assumptions about air quality regulations,peak-load pricing,costs of uranium resources,and future costs of capital to the electric utility industry.