Nuclear energy cost U.S. 2021

The generation of electricity through nuclear power plants in the United States cost 29.13 U.S. dollars per megawatt-hour in 2021. Production costs were highest in 2012, when they came to over 47.6 U.S. dollars in 2021 prices, but have decreased ever since. Some 780 terawatt-hours of electricity are generated by U.S. nuclear plants every year.

Electricity production costs for nuclear power plants in the United States from 2002 to 2021 (in U.S. dollars per megawatt-hour)*

Characteristic	Costs in U.S. dollars per megawatt-hour
2021	29.13
2020	30.59
2019	32.06
2018	34.68
2017	36.89
2016	37.94
2015	40.3
2012	47.65
2011	45.06
2010	41.82
2007	33.92
2004	32.8
2002	31.34

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October 2022

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United States

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2002 to 2021

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* All values are presented in 2021 U.S. dollars.
According to the source, production costs equal the sum of operations and capital costs and fuel costs.

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