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The principal economic concern about nuclear power reactors has always been their capital cost. Currently, the capital cost of a reactor contributes some 70 per cent to the total cost of nuclear-generated electricity, even when somewhat speculative allowance is made for decommissioning and waste disposal costs (see Table 23.1). Given that nuclear capital costs have been rising in real terms by as much as 10–14 per cent per annum in the USA, this concern is clearly not going to disappear.
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MacKerron, G. (1984). The Economic Aspect. In: Surrey, J. (eds) The Urban Transportation of Irradiated Fuel. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17354-9_23
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