RE: Record US gas prices breathe life into nuclear power

["Crowley, George M." <gmcrowley@tva.gov>]

Interesting bit of economics.

In 1999, the latest available full-year data, production costs (outlays for
fuel and operations and maintenance) at nuclear power plants averaged 1.83
cents per kilowatt-hour (kwh).  This was lower than coal at 2.07 cents/kwh
and far lower than oil-fired plants at 3.18 cents/kwh.  Production costs for
natural gas plants were 3.52 cents/kwh.
	
In 1998, average production costs for coal-fired plants were 2.07 cents/kwh,
with nuclear power plants at 2.13 cents/kwh, oil-fired units at 3.24
cents/kwh and natural gas plants at 3.3 cents/kwh, according to
Washington-based Utility Data Institute (UDI), a division of the McGraw-Hill
Companies (UDI did not incorporate the past year's spikes in oil and natural
gas prices in the full-year data).



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> From: 	Michael Stabin[SMTP:michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu]
> Sent: 	Monday, January 29, 2001 8:48 AM
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> Subject: 	Record US gas prices breathe life into nuclear power
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> 
> > > What have you been smoking?
> > "That was then; this is now."  :-)
> 
> I tend to agree with Jim. Given (1) a president that will not irrationally
> oppose all efforts to solve the waste problem, using "bait and switch"
> techniques to frustrate good faith efforts in that area (as well as the
> law,
> I might add), (2) the new energy secretary, and (3) public opinion polls
> showing less intolerance for nuclear technologies, I am optimistic that
> there is a chance now for at least a reasoned dialogue on the subject.
> 
> 
> Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
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