Studies on Optimal Strategy to Adopt Nuclear Power Plants into Saudi Arabian Energy System Using MESSAGE Tool

Figure 21

The effect of changing the IDC discount rate ratio of the LUECs for each reactor design (i.e., 2.1%, 2.5%, 5%) of the single reactor (APR-1400 and SMART-100) and the combined nuclear fleet (APR-1400 and SMART-100) for the different compositions of reactor designs with varying capital cost of the SMART-100 reactor. Numbers in parenthesis (X : Y) represent the composition of reactor designs (i.e., X units of APR-1400 and Y units of SMART-100).