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

Table 4

The operational parameters of candidate NPPs assumed in this study [33, 48–58].

Power plant	Th-P (MWt)	Cn-T (yr)	Th-E (%)	L-T (yr)	Ca-F (%)	FB (GWtd/MTHM)	SP (MWt/MTHM)	CC (U$/kWe)	NC (#)	FOM (U$/MWh)
SMART-100	300	3	33	60	90	40	33	10000	1	32.4
APR-1400	390000	6	33	60	90	42.2	37. 9	5714	1	20.9

Th-P (MWt): thermal power, Cn-T (yr): construction time (yr), Th-E (%): thermal efficiency (%), L-T (y): lifetime (yr), Ca-F (%): capacity factor (%), FB (GWtd/MTHM): fuel burnup (GWtd/MTIHM), SP (MWt/MTHM): specific power (MWt/MTHM), CC (U$/kWe): capital cost (U$/kWe), NC(#): number of cycles (#), and FOM (U$/MWh): fuel, operation, and maintenance cost of the reactor (U$/MWh).