NAC Worldwide Special Reports
Low Operating Cost Trend for U.S.
Nuclear Energy Plants Sustained in 2001 (September Update)
FERC Data Shows U.S. Nuclear Operators Maintaining Parity with Coal Generation.
Initial operational and economic data from recent U.S. Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) filings for 2001 indicate another strong
performance year for U.S. nuclear energy plants. The average production
cost in 2001 for the 47 reporting sites (out of 67 total) was ...

U.S. Nuclear Utility Restructuring:
2001 in Review
U.S. nuclear utility restructuring in 2001 was marked by several key market
developments that included a continued trend of significant consolidation
of the ownership of U.S. nuclear generating capacity; maturation of a
major utility alliance of smaller nuclear utilities; the sale and/or announced
sale of the last remaining near-term acquisition opportunities in the
once target rich Northeastern U.S. market; and the demise of what promised
to be the largest nuclear utility consolidation since the merger of the
nuclear assets of Unicom/Commonwealth Edison and PECO Energy ...

Russian Spent
Fuel Management Initiative: Economic Realities
Russia's Minatom is vigorously pursuing a new program aimed at providing
spent fuel interim storage and reprocessing services for customers outside
its normal customer base. While all of the details surrounding the proposed
services have not yet been communicated, the basic framework is established
to a point where a sanity check of the program's economic viability ...

U.S. Nuclear Plant Sales
& Ownership Consolidation: 2000 in Review
The ownership of U.S. nuclear generating capacity continued its trend
of significant consolidation in 2000. Even more dramatic, however, was
the rapid increase from 1998 and 1999 in the derived purchase price of
nuclear plants that were sold in 2000. This substantial increase in price,
along with the current energy shortages in California and steadily improving
operating capacity factors, have companies rethinking ...

U.S. Spent Fuel Update:
Year 2000 in Review
In addition to marking a third-straight year of continued U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE) delay in shipping of U.S. utility spent fuel to a federal
repository, the onset of the new millennium was distinguished by a flurry
of Congressional, DOE and utility actions ...
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