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Cost of Electricity from Molten Salt Reactors
Volume 138 · Number 1 · April 2002 · Pages 93-95
Technical Note · Economics of Nuclear Systems
R. W. Moir
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The cost of electricity is estimated for a molten salt reactor based on evaluations at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and compared to the ORNL pressurized water reactor and coal plant estimates of the same pre-1980 vintage plants. The results were 3.8, 4.1, and 4.2 ¢/kWh for the molten salt reactor, pressurized water reactor, and coal. Surprisingly, such cost estimates have never before been published for the molten salt reactor.
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