Atomic Energy Costing

Introduction, Chronology and Background: a "New World" with "Free Energy".- Key Questions and Debates, Ancient and Modern.- 1 "Ancient Debates" over Costing and Control of Atomic Energy, 1946-54.- A. Economic Costing, Consequences, and Control-the Cowles Project and Isard Studies and Lerner's approach.- B. Variations on the theme: the UK Case-Blackett, Isard, Cherwell, Harrod and Cockcroft.- 2 Patterns, Paramteters, and Politicization of Atomic Energy Costing.- A. the Cost "Enigma" and Private Enterprise: profits and subsidies, interest and discount rates, private and social costs.- B. Politicization of Atomic Energy Costing: a new political economy perspective.- 3 Agency Theoretic and Welfare Aspects of Atomic Energy Costing and Regulation.- A. Alternate Principal-Agent approaches to Public Utilities and their Regulation: from "control" and "capture" to "regulatory environment".- B. Pigovian and Coasian aspects of the Nuclear Cost Cycle.- C. " Planning Context," "Official Technology" and the notion of "Capture": a critique.- 4 Modern Costing and Regulation Debates: from OPEC-1 Onwards.- A. the nuclear-political cost cycle: from "independence" to "constraints".- B. a Free Lunch Again?-the New Atomic Energy the New Atomic Energy Costing Debate amongst economists and in the economic press from 1983 onwards.- 5 Atomic Power and Its Regulation: a Comparative Analysis and Critique of Projections.- A. The Japanese Nuclear Program-an overview.- B. Japanese and US Regulatory Approaches in Theory and Practice.- C. The UK case: regulatory failure or government failure?.- D. US Department of Energy Long Term Projections for Nuclear Power: a costing-based critique.- 6 Summary and Conclusions: Atomic EnergyCosting-Retrospect and Prospect.- Retrospect: "No Free Lunch".- Prospect: from regulated "plutonium" to deregulated "hydrogen-based" economies.- Appendix:.- Simon, Marschak and Schurr on the " 'Economic' and 'Trigger' Effects of Technological Change-the Case of Atomic Energy: