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

Table 1

Results from the studies.

	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; ($/kg U)	83.2	50	30	68.8	260	80
DGR cost; ($/kg HM)	150	190	400	320	354	470
Reprocessing cost; ($/kg HM)	790	770	1100	725	1100	1600