Nuclear power's role in generating electricity
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Nuclear power's role in generating electricity
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eng
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federal national government publication
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non fiction
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Nuclear power's role in generating electricity
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bibliography
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230409522
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CBO study
Summary
Assesses the competitiveness of nuclear power when compared with other sources of new capacity to generate electricity, focusing on the possible effects of constraints on carbon dioxide emissions and the impact of the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005 incentives
Table Of Contents
Summary and introduction -- Background on electricity-generating technologies -- Considerations underlying future investment in power plants -- How might carbon dioxide charges affect the prospects of investment in new nuclear plants? -- How does the Energy Policy Act of 2005 affect the prospects of investment in new nuclear plants? -- Uncertainties posed by future market conditions and the possibility of carbon dioxide constraints -- Framing the analysis: base-case assumptions and the effects of policy -- Levelized cost analysis -- Base-case assumptions -- Accounting for the effects of policy -- Accounting for the effects of carbon dioxide charges -- Accounting for the effects of Energy Policy Act incentives -- Results and implications of the analysis -- Outlook for investment in the absence of carbon dioxide charges and EPAct incentives -- Outlook for investment under carbon dioxide charges -- Outlook for investment under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 -- Incentives and impediments at the state and local levels -- Future market and policy uncertainties -- Tables -- Figures
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