U.S. nuclear power reactors: at a crossroads

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Published:
July 5, 2017

Extending the life of U.S. nuclear plants would require large capital investments that are difficult to justify under existing market conditions, write researchers at UT Austin’s Center for Energy Economics (CEE), a unit within UT Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology in the Jackson School of Geosciences. The Center’s dispatch modeling tested the retirement of 43 GW of nuclear capacity by 2025 as part of its Electric Power Research Forum, which focuses on the forces disrupting electric power markets.