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Economies of scale in nuclear power plant
Author(s) -
Lucas N. J. D.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.4440030308
Subject(s) - confusion , scope (computer science) , economies of scale , nuclear power , nuclear power plant , capital cost , capital (architecture) , economics , scale (ratio) , order (exchange) , environmental science , natural resource economics , econometrics , physics , nuclear physics , computer science , macroeconomics , microeconomics , geography , finance , psychology , archaeology , quantum mechanics , psychoanalysis , programming language
This paper demonstrates that, to first order, the optimum size of nuclear plant depends only on the form of the dependence of capital costs and availability with size and not on absolute levels; it is also independent of nuclear fuel costs. the advantage of this treatment is that the forms of these dependences are less controversial than absolute values and the scope for confusion in determining optimum size is therefore reduced.