Economics for managing nuclear energy in Japan

Yanagisawa, Kazuaki

An economic scale of nuclear energy was evaluated as a total amount of sales of electricity. It was 43,018 million dollars, including a fuel cycle cost by 10,860 million dollars. Due to several casualty accidents, for example, an earth quake attacked to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Units in 2007, the economic scale of nuclear energy was decreasing. The indirect effect of nuclear energy linked with the green technology was effective to avoid global warming. Hypothetical trading of carbon dioxide emission might save 4,000 million dollars, that is 10 percent of the ordinary earnings.