Review Article

Recycling versus Long-Term Storage of Nuclear Fuel: Economic Factors

Table 2

Results obtained from studies updated to 2011.

NEA-OECD (1985) [6]NEA-OECD (1991) [6]MIT (2003) [9]BCG (2006) [11]EPRI (2010) [12]De Roo and Parsons (2011) [16]

Uranium price
($2011/kg U)
149.88143.780.6276.589
DGR cost
($2011/kg HM)
270.1308.1582.8375.2376.5422
Reprocessing cost
($2011/kg HM)
1422.41248.314581602.61783.61169.7