recovered plutonum recovered uranium Reprocessing option. Back‐end cycle.[r]
(1)(2)Capital cost (Investment)
Over night cost (~5,000 $/kW)
• EPC (Engineering, procurement, and construction) cost (80%) ‐ Direct cost(70%) : equipment + labor + material (to assemble) ‐ Indirect cost(30%) : supervisory
• Owner’s cost (20%) ‐ Testing
‐ Operator training Financing cost
Insurance
Operation and Maintenance cost ‐ Fuel cost
‐ Waste disposal cost
Decommissioning cost Discount rate :
(3) Front end
• uranium ore • conversion
• enrichment
• fuel fabrication Fuel cycle cost
Back end
(4)Mining the ore Concentrate to UOC
UOC ⇒ UF6 Enrichment UF6 ⇒ UO2 Fuel fabrication
Fuel Loading
uranium purchase conversion
enrichment fabrication
32~50 $/lb U3O8 14~17$/kgU
44~100 $/kgSWU 200~400 $/kgU
(5)F, xF P, xp T, xT
feed product tail
SWU P T F
W P V x T V x F V x
1 ln x
V x x
x Value function for cascade (multiple stage) enrichment Separation Work Unit P T F T x x F
P x x
F P T
Mass balance
P F
F T
x x T
P x x
F P T
x F x Px T
F : mass (kg) x : enrichment
Unit : kg SWU
(6)Spent fuel transport
Storage
Encapsulation
Disposal
Storage Reprocessing Treatment and storage of waste
Disposal of Low level waste Disposal of High
recovered plutonum recovered uranium Reprocessing option
(7)ref) IAEA nuclear energy series : NF-T-3.5 Costing of spent nuclear storage
Net present value
0 N
n n n
C NPV
r
r : discount rate : invester’s desired rate of return
(8)contruction
operation
safe enclosure (SAFSTOR) dismantling (DECON) entombment (ENTOMB)
decommissioning commercial operation
Radwaste disposal
- Inflation corrected price
- Discount rate 1rn
Present value
(9)http://www.wise-uranium.org/nfcc.html input present value
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