This report provides advanced nuclear cost ranges and learning rates using a transparent methodology along with other relevant information that can be used to help support decision-making and energy planning.
This report uses a high-resolution nationwide model of the United States electricity sector to demonstrate how advanced nuclear reactors might play a major role in a least-cost plan to transition the power grid entirely to clean energy sources by 2050.
This paper compiles and evaluates methods to systematically interrogate computer codes, discusses the challenges present when evaluating computer codes, and offers a decision framework for selecting interrogation methods.