An Economic Cost Assessment on HALEU Fuels for Small Modular Reactors

Table 2

Total core load uranium cost (with units of million USD}.

		Product Enrichment {w/o}									NuScale Enrichment
		5.0	7.0	9.0	11.0	13.0	15.0	17.0	19.0	20.0	4.17
Tails enrichment {w/o}	0.20	15.2	20.8	26.5	32.3	38.0	43.8	49.6	55.4	58.3	12.8
	0.22	15.3	21.0	26.7	32.5	38.3	44.2	50.0	55.8	58.8	12.9
	0.24	15.4	21.2	27.0	32.9	38.8	44.7	50.6	56.5	59.4	13.0
	0.26	15.6	21.5	27.4	33.4	39.3	45.3	51.3	57.3	60.3	13.2
	0.28	15.8	21.8	27.9	33.9	40.0	46.1	52.2	58.3	61.4	13.4
	0.30	16.1	22.3	28.4	34.6	40.8	47.1	53.3	59.6	62.7	13.6