Economics and demand for non-electric applications. Technical session 3

This session featured nine papers from six Member States and the IAEA. Most of the author's focus centered on the economic and financial aspects of seawater desalination. In many cases, the tool utilized in the economic analyses was the IAEA's Desalination Economic Evaluation Program (DEEP) software code, which provides an economic basis for comparing different fossil and nuclear energy sources coupled to various desalination systems. The salient feature of this code and the pertinent information from the corresponding Coordinated Research Programme on 'Economic Research on, and Assessment of, Selected Nuclear Desalination Projects and Case Studies' was the subject of a presentation by the IAEA