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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Nuclear Power in the Third World
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.183334.6437@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:33:34 GMT
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- From the same _Energy Policy_ article (12-88)
- (This is mainly paraphrasing from the article - anyone want to donate
- a scanner to me? :)
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- Latin America
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- In 1960, research reactors were installed in Brazil, the major power
- in Latin America, and by the early 1970's, most Latin American
- countries were planning for large nuclear programmes to be in
- place by the year 2000: 30 GW for Argentina, up to 50 GW for
- Brazil, 25 GW for Mexico.
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- Argentina
- 600 MW Embalese plant completed at 3 times the original cost est.
- Arroyito heavy water plant has quadrupled in cost.
- 698 MW Attucha II reactor estimated to cost $6017/kW
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- Brazil
- 626 MW Angra I: 8 years late and at 4.5 times original cost.
- Angra II: work suspended after $1.1 billion due to financial crisis
- Angra III: work suspended after $300 million
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- Mexico
- Laguna Verde I under construction for 14 years
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- Latin America had planned for 105 GW by 2000. 1.7 GW is online now (1988).
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- Asia
-
- For South Korea and Taiwan ... nuclear power has provided an economically
- competitive alternative compared with other options for electricity
- generation. IN the four less-industrialized nations with nuclear
- programmes, China, India, Pakistan and the Phillippines, nuclear power
- has been less successful:
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- China has postponed its nuclear program indefinitely...
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- Inability to obtain external financing, rising reactor costs, and vendor
- concerns about military intentions led Pakistan to postpone indefinitely
- bid submission dates for its 10 to 20 nuclear power plants.
-
- And India, with its three-decade old nuclear programme - the first
- substantial nuclear programme in the developing world - has only
- 1.2 GW of installed nuclear capacity.
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