The arising of used fuel inventories, particularly when no timely development and deployment of final disposal is present, presents financial liabilities to the owners (i.e. utilities) of such used fuel. Nuclear-21 performs the analysis of such liabilities and assesses the value used fuel management options, though also more broadly including radioactive waste management, may bring in reducing these liabilities.
An Asset Liability Management (ALM) methodology and associated toolbox has been developed and applied for a variety of clients including governments, utilities and fuel cycle service companies each of which seeks to address the management of such liabilities. Recent examples of such application being:
- the analysis of fuel cycle options for an existing reactor fleet and which options the newbuild prospects in such country may bring to reduce the liabilities;
- the portfolio management of a significant used fuel inventory including used UOX and MOX-fuels and the recommended strategy to minimise uncertainties from the interim storage of such used fuels awaiting new socio-technical-economic conditions;
- the value of advanced reactor technologies in managing the used fuel and the economic real options value to finance such advanced reactor (and fuel cycle) options.
We partner with financial asset managers to cover the financial portfolio optimisation in such ALM assignments.
More information via Mr. Luc Van Den Durpel.
