Market Competition in the Nuclear Industry / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Nuclear Energy Agency.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Contributor:

Nuclear Energy Agency.

SourceOECD (Online service)

Series:

Nuclear development 1990066X.

Nuclear Development 1990066X.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance and investment.

Nuclear energy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 pages).

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Nuclear power plants require a wide variety of specialised equipment, materials and services for their construction, operation and fuelling. There has been much consolidation and retrenchment in the nuclear industry since the 1980s, with the emergence of some large global nuclear companies. Electricity market liberalisation in many OECD countries has meanwhile placed nuclear plant operators under increased competitive pressure. These structural changes in both the producer and consumer sides of the nuclear industry have had implications for the level of competition in the nuclear engineering and fuel cycle markets. With renewed expansion of nuclear power now anticipated, this study examines competition in the major nuclear industry sectors at present, and how this may change with a significant upturn in demand.

Contents:

Conclusions and recommendations

Implications for competition of proposed multilateral fuel supply arrangements

Competition in services for maintenance and upgrading of existing nuclear power plants (NPPs)

Competition in the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle

Competition in the front-end of the nuclear fuel cycle

Competition in the design, engineering and construction of nuclear power plants

Assessing the competitiveness of markets

Introduction.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9789264054073

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