Full Title: Input-Output Analysis and Economic Models for Small Modular Reactors: Model Construction, Development Options and Future Considerations
Author(s): David Solan
Publisher(s): Energy Policy Institute and Center for Advanced Energy Studies
Publication Date: December 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
A team of researchers developed the first US economic input-output analysis model and resulting impacts for small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in 2009-2010. The team sought to answer the question, “What are the potential impacts of the manufacture, construction, and operation of SMRs in the US through 2030?” The resulting study was published as a report by the Center for Advanced Energy Studies’ Energy Policy Institute as Economic and Employment Impacts of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (2010). The report was first presented by members of the team in Washington DC at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Subsequently the US Department of Energy (DOE) has regularly used the report as a benchmark in public presentations regarding SMRs, and economic impacts were a required element in proposals to responding to the $452 million Funding Opportunity Announcement for DOE to provide Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and design certification support for the first SMR designs.