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- From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.143104.12106@cs.rochester.edu>
- Organization: University of Rochester
- References: <p2qrxnc@dixie.com> <1992Dec31.131531.3983@cs.rochester.edu> <l2srmnc@dixie.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:31:04 GMT
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- In article <l2srmnc@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
-
- >> $250/kW seems awfully low -- that's even less than the capital cost of
- >> simple cycle combustion turbines.
-
- > That's because combustion turbines are low capacity compared to their
- > cost.
-
- Really? Is that why they are the prefered fossil units for peaking power?
- I would have thought that *low* capital cost for a given power output
- would be prefered there.
-
-
- > I quoted myself above again to reiterate my basis which should be
- > the basis used in the study. That USCEA is using the old, obsolete
- > model for nuclear generation to me shows they are about as competent
- > at that as they are in making nuclear power advertisements. (I've
- > never seen such horrendously bad ads.) Sure a plant of 50s vintage design
- > built under even "streamlined" regulations would cost at least $1300/kw.
- > I would hope that in the almost 50 years of experience, the industry could
- > come up with a more cost-effective design. Since several have already
- > been proposed in the literature, I'm sure they can. Of course, if
- > DOE is allowed to boondogle as usual, who knows.
-
-
- The USCEA is using new designs in its analysis. None of the next
- generation LWRs (AP600, SBWR, etc.) come in anywhere near $250/kW,
- even though they are often much simpler than the last generation of
- reactors.
-
- I'm calling you on this $250/kW figure. Please give a literature
- reference that justifies it.
-
- Paul F. Dietz
- dietz@cs.rochester.edu
-