Glossary
- c:
-
Onetime costs [$]
- Ce:
-
Cost of electricity [$]
- Ep:
-
Electricity production [kW(e)]
- FV:
-
Future value in constant dollars [$]
- FV’:
-
Future value in nominal dollars [$]
- HM:
-
Heavy metal refers to the uranium and or transuranic component of fuel
- i:
-
Inflation rate per year
- kg:
-
Kilogram
- kW:
-
Kilowatt
- kWh:
-
Kilowatt hour
- kWh(e):
-
Kilowatt hour electric
- mill:
-
$ 0.001
- MOX:
-
Mixed oxide fuel
- MWh(e):
-
Megawatt hour electric
- n:
-
Number of years
- p(t):
-
Distributed costs [$/year]
- Pu:
-
Plutonium
- PV:
-
Present value [$]
- r:
-
Nominal yearly rate of return in discrete discounting
- r(xi,xj):
-
Correlation coefficient
- SD:
-
Standard deviation
- SF:
-
Spent fuel (also called used nuclear fuel; SF will be used in this work)
- SW:
-
Separative work
- t:
-
Time [year]
- U:
-
Uranium
- UOX:
-
Uranium dioxide fuel
- VHLW:
-
Vitrified high-level waste
- xi:
-
Denotes a cost component
- α:
-
Linear cost escalation rate [$/year2]
- β:
-
Linear cost escalation intercept [$/year]
- δ:
-
Delta function
- ρ:
-
Real discount or interest rate [1/year]
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Deinert, M.R. (2018). Nuclear Power Economics. In: Tsoulfanidis, N. (eds) Nuclear Energy. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6618-9_33
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