{"title":"New life at old plants: Exploring solar power development at former nuclear power plant sites in the United States","authors":"Elisabeth Sinclair, Jim A. Hamilton","doi":"10.1016/j.tej.2023.107301","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When a nuclear power plant closes, its host community often faces a number of negative economic impacts, such as the loss of skilled jobs and a major source of tax revenue. Even after decommissioning is completed, many former plant sites remain undeveloped, further inhibiting economic recovery. In this paper, we use data from seven decommissioned and decommissioning plants as well as estimates from industry professionals to calculate an approximate opportunity cost for each host community. This cost represents how much potential revenue has been lost while the plant site has remained undeveloped as compared to an alternate scenario in which it has been redeveloped into a solar power plant. Additionally, this paper discusses the presence of spent nuclear fuel and the challenges this presents for the redevelopment of former nuclear plant sites. This paper demonstrates the importance of efficient decommissioning and post-decommissioning redevelopment and examines solar power generation as one potential redevelopment pathway.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35642,"journal":{"name":"Electricity Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Electricity Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040619023000684","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
When a nuclear power plant closes, its host community often faces a number of negative economic impacts, such as the loss of skilled jobs and a major source of tax revenue. Even after decommissioning is completed, many former plant sites remain undeveloped, further inhibiting economic recovery. In this paper, we use data from seven decommissioned and decommissioning plants as well as estimates from industry professionals to calculate an approximate opportunity cost for each host community. This cost represents how much potential revenue has been lost while the plant site has remained undeveloped as compared to an alternate scenario in which it has been redeveloped into a solar power plant. Additionally, this paper discusses the presence of spent nuclear fuel and the challenges this presents for the redevelopment of former nuclear plant sites. This paper demonstrates the importance of efficient decommissioning and post-decommissioning redevelopment and examines solar power generation as one potential redevelopment pathway.
Electricity JournalBusiness, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management
CiteScore
5.80
自引率
0.00%
发文量
95
审稿时长
31 days
期刊介绍：
The Electricity Journal is the leading journal in electric power policy. The journal deals primarily with fuel diversity and the energy mix needed for optimal energy market performance, and therefore covers the full spectrum of energy, from coal, nuclear, natural gas and oil, to renewable energy sources including hydro, solar, geothermal and wind power. Recently, the journal has been publishing in emerging areas including energy storage, microgrid strategies, dynamic pricing, cyber security, climate change, cap and trade, distributed generation, net metering, transmission and generation market dynamics. The Electricity Journal aims to bring together the most thoughtful and influential thinkers globally from across industry, practitioners, government, policymakers and academia. The Editorial Advisory Board is comprised of electric industry thought leaders who have served as regulators, consultants, litigators, and market advocates. Their collective experience helps ensure that the most relevant and thought-provoking issues are presented to our readers, and helps navigate the emerging shape and design of the electricity/energy industry.
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
京公网安备 11010802042870号
