Abstract
The siting of nuclear power plants in the U.S. has become one of the most controversial aspects of the energy conversion industries. This paper examines the power plant location decision applied to northern Indiana. The paper proposes a model which is then assessed and evaluated using data from Indiana.
Highlights
The siting of nuclear power plants in the United States has become one of the most controversial aspects of the energy conversion industries
Several factors constrain the siting of nuclear power plants such as water availabil ity for plant cooling, human population density, potential seismic activity and most recently social or political opposition.^,the actual number of potential sites for a nuclear power plant is limited
The time and costs associated with over ten years of delay in plant construction implies that an alternative site might be, at least,less conflict ridden and,more suitable.The model presented in this paper is applied to the siting of a nuclear power plant within the Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) service region to meet an exogenously determined hypothetic?' future peak demand for electricity
Summary
The siting of nuclear power plants in the United States has become one of the most controversial aspects of the energy conversion industries. The time and costs associated with over ten years of delay in plant construction implies that an alternative site might be, at least,less conflict ridden and,,more suitable.The model presented in this paper is applied to the siting of a nuclear power plant within the NIPSCO service region to meet an exogenously determined hypothetic?' future peak demand for electricity. This approach will illustrate the type of model which may be appropriate for social policy planning at the local or regional decision level where incremental decision-making is predom inant. Neither ofthese considerations,,were explicitly accounted for by the present constraints (see section on Assessment and Evaluation)
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