Research Article

Feasibility Studies on Pyro-SFR Closed Fuel Cycle and Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Line with the Latest National Policy and Strategy of Korea

Table 9

Descriptive statistics of process cost and reactor cost using 50,000 random samples with Monte Carlo method.

CategoryMinimumMaximumMeanMedianSDCV

Uranium58.16407.27228.89226.8871.460.31
Conversion6.2033.5919.9219.977.910.40
Enrichment406.21576.50487.52486.3431.080.06
PWR fuel fabrication284.63425.83352.40351.1029.040.08
PHWR fuel fabrication63.77188.97134.76137.8426.480.20
UO2-pyroprocess990.055,147.953,063.973,062.27809.890.26
SFR-pyroprocess1,514.365,963.693,765.253,774.47879.010.23
SFR fuel fabrication2,322.118,682.885,311.275,225.731,315.300.25
PWR IS&T135.35923.51513.05505.19161.880.32
PHWR IS&T65.51699.21385.24386.78130.250.34
Pyroprocess HLW (storage)124,855.22231,538.87185,416.02188,057.0622,407.710.12
LILW-SL disposal3,467.534,166.873,817.853,817.21144.400.04
LILW-LL disposal9,246.0811,119.1910,074.7510,033.59391.760.04
PWR final disposal523.492,244.141,292.741,254.76359.150.28
PHWR final disposal296.62698.04503.64507.0083.100.16
Pyroprocess disposal17,870.38492,381.02269,486.28274,929.7097,445.860.36
PWR overnight1,907.617,027.804,758.434,869.871,067.170.22
PHWR overnight105.461,896.521,197.881,258.74393.910.33
SFR overnight2,321.499,196.446,107.576,254.421,438.340.24

SD: standard deviation; CV: coefficient of variability. units are the same as in Table 8 for each item.