Education and Training Series #14: Estimating Costs of GenIV Systems
Part of a webinar series hosted by the GIF Education and Training Working Group since 2016.
Who should attend?
Policymakers, industry professionals, regulators, researchers, students, the general public.
About the "GIF Education and Training" Webinars
These webinars, organised by the GIF Education and Training Working Group are streamed live monthly. The recordings and slide decks are accessible after the webinar on this website. These webinars cover a very broad range of technical and policy related topics. At the end of 2023 they have been viewed by more than 15000 people (approximately half of the views during the live streams and the other half views being of the archives on the public GIF website). In total, the GIF webinars have reached Generation IV enthusiasts, scientists, and engineers in more than 80 countries.
These webinars are organised and hosted by the GIF Education and Training Working Group (ETWG).
About this Webinar
This webinar will provide an overview of the Economic Modelling Working Group’s Cost Estimating Guidelines for Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems (GIF, 2007). Topics include an overview of the Guidelines, a comparison of the Guidelines with other nuclear power plant cost estimating models, and a discussion of benchmarking activities by the EMWG with INPRO.
Presentation made during the webinar
Meet the presenter
Dr. Geoffrey Rothwell since 2013 has been the Principal Economist of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, Paris, France), where he acts as the Secretariat for the Economic Modelling Working Group (EMWG). For EMWG he wrote the TOR in 2003 as the Chair of the Economics Cross-cut Group of the Generation IV Roadmap Committee. He was active in writing the Cost Estimating Guidelines for Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems (GIF, 2007). While teaching at Stanford University from 1986-2013, he consulted to Idaho, Oak Ridge, and Pacific Northwest, and Argonne National Laboratories, for whom he updated the University of Chicago’s 2004 report, The Economic Future of Nuclear Power, published as The Economics of Nuclear Power, Routledge, London, 2016. Dr. Rothwell grew up in Richland, Washington, and received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.