Nuclear power generating electricity, future costs

In recent years, prices for many commodities and materials have been escalating at a very rapid rate. Two of these materials most relevant to new power plant construction are copper and concrete. Obviously, these cost increases in basic materials will greatly impact the costs of a variety of finished products, including the construction of nuclear plants and the manufacture of the fuel assemblies. In the following section, an attempt has been made to discuss the impacts of a number of items and issues on the present and future economics of electricity generated by nuclear power. 

With a density about half of water, lithium is with the lowest density of all solids, mere 0.5 g/cm at 20 °C [1]. Lithium is widely used in aerospace, aviation, nuclear-generated power and electric battery industry. Nowadays, over 90 % of the world s primary lithium is produced by molten salt electrolysis [2 4]. But the development of molten salt electrolysis will be effected by some factors cost, environment, and so on. Vacuum thermal reduction may be used extensively in future because of its low-energy consumption, high-purity and short-cycle. 

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