5. Nuclear energy and the economy
As is increasingly the case for the other energies examined, the cost of nuclear energy must be broken down into internal and external costs. This paragraph also examines a controversial question: what value, positive or negative, should be assigned to plutonium?
5.1 Cost per kilowatt-hour
The cost per kilowatt-hour produced by high-power water reactors has been the subject of numerous studies, the most comprehensive of which are probably that of the French Ministry of Industry, based on a very large and well-known program, and that carried out by Prof. Tarjanne for the Finnish government, which underpinned its decision to build a new reactor.
The DGEMP study
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