Cost of nuclear fuel in nuclear power plant economics is consider
A. running cost
B. maintenance cost
C. capital cost
D. development cost
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Right Answer is: C
SOLUTION
Concept:
The fuel used in the Nuclear power plant is usually Uranium although Plutonium can also be used.
Thorium is not a nuclear fuel itself, it can be turned into a suitable isotope of Uranium in a nuclear reactor.
Nuclear reactor any of a class of devices that can initiate and control a self-sustaining series of nuclear fissions. Nuclear reactors are used as research tools, as systems for producing radioactive isotopes, and most prominently as energy sources for nuclear power plants.
Nuclear reactors are broadly classified into three categories.
- Reaction reactor
- Production reactor
- Power reactor
Nuclear fuel in a nuclear reactor may remain for more than 5 years. So the cost of fuel injected initially is taken as capital cost and maybe a few crore rupees.