{"id":59144,"date":"2015-06-08T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=59144"},"modified":"2015-06-05T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T13:54:47","slug":"nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/06\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Fuel Cycle Cost Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nuclear_Power_Plant_Cattenom.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-59145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nuclear_Power_Plant_Cattenom-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Nuclear_Power_Plant_Cattenom\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nuclear_Power_Plant_Cattenom.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nuclear_Power_Plant_Cattenom-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discussions of the future of nuclear power often focus on safety, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/how-fissile-material-falls-through-cracks7296\" >proliferation<\/a>, waste storage, and carbon emissions &#8211; accepting cost as a given. This tool breaks the cost of investing in nuclear power into its component parts and considers the price of three configurations of the \u2018<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/glossary#fuelcycle\" >fuel cycle<\/a>\u2019 &#8211; that is, the process that includes everything from the mining and production of uranium fuel to the disposal of spent fuel after it has been used to generate electricity.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/model\" ><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/model\" >The Calculator <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Estimate the price of power from each fuel cycle (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/glossary#once\" >once-through<\/a> or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/glossary#LimRecycle\" >limited recycle<\/a> in a light water reactor, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/glossary#FullRecycle\" >full recycle<\/a> in a fast reactor). Test how sensitive the price of electricity is to the cost of components.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/data\" ><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/data\" >The Data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Explore the calculator and change default values based on different empirical studies. Select data from different countries (coming soon).<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/glossary\" ><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\/glossary\" >The Glossary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the component parts of the fuel cycle. Get definitions for new terminology. Find links to other online resources.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2015 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thebulletin.org\/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator\" >Go to Original \u2013 thebulletin.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussions of the future of nuclear power often focus on safety, proliferation, waste storage, and carbon emissions &#8211; accepting cost as a given. This tool breaks the cost of investing in nuclear power into its component parts and considers the price of three configurations of the \u2018fuel cycle.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}