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Author Falk, Justin Robert.

Title Nuclear power's role in generating electricity [electronic resource].

Imprint Washington, DC : Congress of the U.S., Congressional Budget Office : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [2008]
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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Federal Documents Online  Y 10.2:N 88/4    ---  Available
Description vi, 38 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Series CBO study.
Note "May 2008."
"Justin Falk of CBO's Microeconomic Studies Division wrote the study"--Pref.
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.
Form Mode of access via the CBO web site.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Subject Nuclear energy -- United States.
Electric power production -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Electric power production -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
United States. Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Added Author United States. Congressional Budget Office.
ISBN 9780160807350 : $7.50
0160807352 : $7.50
Gpo Item No. 1005-C (online)
Sudoc No. Y 10.2:N 88/4

 
    
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