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The Costs of Generating Electricity 2025 (the 10th report in the Projected Costs of Generating Electricity series; NEA No. 7771)

Commissioned by NEA / EPRI. Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

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• CLM-0462 A 2025 study by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the US Electric Power Research Institute estimates that new large nuclear plants built now would cost about 95 to 168 US dollars per megawatt hour. If the industry gets back to building reactors routinely, that could fall to about 56 to 87 dollars. Extending the life of existing plants is cheapest, at about 39 to 62 dollars.
• CLM-1414 The international nuclear agency's 2025 cost report counts the price paid for carbon emissions as part of what a kilowatt-hour costs, alongside building, running, fuelling and dismantling the plant.
• CLM-1415 The 2025 international cost report adds 50 US dollars for every tonne of carbon dioxide a fossil plant emits, the same everywhere, when it works out each plant's cost of electricity.

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