Economic Potential

15.50. The MHTGR concept benefits from the same advantages of standardization, factory fabrication, and system simplification that apply to other advanced designs having about the same electrical capacity. Al­though estimated capital cost requirements are slightly higher than for the other designs, they are probably within the error range associated with all such estimates. It should be noted that the MHTGR produces steam at the same conditions as used in fossil-fueled power plants, an advantage. A busbar cost of electricity of about 10 percent less than that from an equivalent-sized modern coal-fired plant has been claimed which appears to justify further attention being given to the potential of the MHTGR.