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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Status of nuclear power 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Aug 17, 2011 - Riso DTU has made its eighth report in the series: 'Nuclear power and Nuclear Safety', which gives a global overview of nuclear energy with a focus on safety and preparedness. This year's report is a bit delayed because of the accident in Fukushima, which is also mentioned in the report that would normally cover only the year 2010. The Radiation Research Division at Riso DTU was suddenly ... more

IAEA Nuclear Power Reactors in the World 2011 Edition

Scientific & Technical Publications

Nuclear Power Reactors in the World 2011 Edition Reference Data Series 2 Subject Classification: 0700-Nuclear power IAEA-RDS-2/31 (ISBN:978-92-0-117810-7) 82 pp.; 6 figures; 12.00 Euro;
Language: English
Date Published: 2011

Responsible Officer/Officers: Mr Jiri Mandula, NENP

DESCRIPTION This is the thirty-first edition of Reference Data Series No.2, which presents the most recent reactor data available to the IAEA. It contains summarized information as of the end of 2010 on: power reactors operating, under construction, and shut down; and performance data on reactors operating in the IAEA Member States, as reported to the IAEA. The information is collected through designated national correspondents in the Member States and the data area used to maintain the IAEA's Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
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BNC TCASE 14: Assessment of electricity generation costs Barry Brook | 17 August 2011 at 8:32 PM | Categories: Emissions, Nuclear, Policy, Renewables, TCASE | URL: http://wp.me/piCIJ-1hu

TCASE 14: Assessment of electricity generation costs

Barry Brook : http://wp.me/piCIJ-1hu

In the previous TCASE post, I considered how various low-carbon energy technologies meet the following criteria: commercial readiness, scalability, dispatchability, fuel constraints, load access, storage requirements, capacity factor and emissions intensity. Here I consider the next issue: cost of deployment, based on expert consensus.

Emission intensity for fit-for-service baseload electricity generating technologies. Error bars represent 90% confidence intervals for the mean (bar height).

The primary data again come from the work I had published in 2011 in the peer-reviewed journal Energy (with colleagues Martin Nicholson [lead author] and Tom Biegler). Cost was analysed on the basis of 15 comprehensive levelised cost of electricity studies published over the past decade. The data are as follows (see also figure above), with references given in the footnote:

(LCOE = levelised cost of electricity (in 2009 US$/MWh) -- see footnotes for a more detailed explanation.)
Enthusiastic supporters of various renewable energy technologies have long made claims that all or most of the world's electricity needs could be met with renewable energy. Our analysis point to the costs involved and hence to the reliance on future major advances on that front in order to be competitive with other, low-emission, alternatives. In our view such reliance is highly speculative and risky as part of any plan to secure future energy.
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Vendors submit financial proposals to Jordan from World Nuclear News by Warwick Pipe The three reactor suppliers shortlisted in May 2010 to construct Jordan’s first nuclear power plant have now submitted their financial proposals for the project to the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission. The deadline for the financial bids was 14 August. Earlier, the companies - an Areva-Mistubishi Heavy Industries consortium, Russia's AtomStroyExport and Canada's SNC-Lavalin International - submitted their technical proposals for building the plant. The designs under consideration are the Atmea-1 pressurized water reactor (PWR), the AES-92 model VVER-1000, and the Enhanced Candu-6 pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR). A special committee formed by the cabinet will study both the technical and financial bids and select the technology to be used in December, official state news agency Petra reported.

Vendors submit financial proposals to Jordan

from World Nuclear News by Warwick Pipe

The three reactor suppliers shortlisted in May 2010 to construct Jordan’s first nuclear power plant have now submitted their financial proposals for the project to the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission. The deadline for the financial bids was 14 August. Earlier, the companies - an Areva-Mistubishi Heavy Industries consortium, Russia's AtomStroyExport and Canada's SNC-Lavalin International - submitted their technical proposals for building the plant. The designs under consideration are the Atmea-1 pressurized water reactor (PWR), the AES-92 model VVER-1000, and the Enhanced Candu-6 pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR). A special committee formed by the cabinet will study both the technical and financial bids and select the technology to be used in December, official state news agency Petra reported.

Economics hinder US new build

from World Nuclear News by Jeremy Gordon

The near-term prospects for an expansion in the use of nuclear energy in the USA "will be miserably hard and extremely challenged by economics," according to the head of Exelon, the country's largest nuclear utility.