The potential for countries which currently have a nominal nuclear energy infrastructure to adopt thorium …-uranium-fuelled nuclear energy systems, using a once-through “open” nuclear fuel cycle, has been presented by the International Atomic Energy … Agency. This paper highlights Generation III and III+ nuclear energy technologies that could potentially adopt an open …

technologies – nuclear, offshore wind and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The first analysis analyses cost trajectories from … consistency of estimates, alongside variations in magnitude. Nuclear estimates are found to be both the most consistent and lowest …

The paper studies how risks specific to a nuclear power investment in liberalised markets – regulatory, construction … needed to make nuclear power attractive to investors in liberalised markets, at least for the first batch of new reactors … recent new nuclear projects illustrate the consistent combinations of contractual, organisational, and financial arrangements …