The Financing of Nuclear Power Plants

This study examines the financial risks involved in investing in a new nuclear power plant, how these can be mitigated, and how projects can be structured so that residual risks are taken by those best able to manage them. Given that expansion of nuclear power programmes will require strong and sustained government support, the study highlights the role of governments in facilitating and encouraging investment in new nuclear generating capacity.
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Conclusions and recommendations
Nuclear Energy Agency
Nuclear power plant construction projects have many characteristics in common with other types of large infrastructure investment, both within the power generation sector and elsewhere. However, nuclear power itself has a number of special characteristics and circumstances which make investment in new NPPs different in several important respects from other large projects. It is these special features that can make nuclear financing particularly challenging.
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