Table 6. — Estimated investment cost components and total capital investment require- 

 ments for two selected size of cobalt 60 radiation processing facilities, 1964 



Item 



Facility size 



1-kw. 



3-kw, 



Facility requirements l/ , 



Cost per curie: 2/. 

 Encapsulation. 



Cost per facility: 



Source plus encapsulation 



Transportation at 1 cent per curie 

 3/ o 



Installation costs including 

 building and ancillary equipment 

 costs 4/ . . o 



Curies 

 77,520 

 Dollars 



0.50 



0.10 



46,512 

 775 



120,000 



Curies 



232,560 



tollars 



0.50 

 0.10 



139,536 

 2,326 



175,000 



Total facility investment. 



167,287 



316,862 



l/ Based on information supplied by Vitro Engineering Company. An allowance of 14 

 percent for self -absorption energy loss and for sufficient over-design to assure rated 

 capacity at the end of source replenishment periods is included. 



2/ In September 1963, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission established a selling price 

 of 50 cents per curie for cobalt 60 with a specific activity of 30 curies per gram or 

 less when in lots of 100,000 curies. Both the 1-kw. and 3-kw. facility sizes considered 

 in this analysis use substantially more than 100,000 curies of cobalt 60 when replen- 

 ishment requirements are included for a designated depreciation period of 8 years. 

 Accordingly, the purchase contracts are set at a base price of 50 cents per curie in 

 this analysis and they are assumed to include initial source loadings (item 1) plus 

 yearly replenishment requirements (item 2, table 5) to be delivered during the 

 depreciation period. The seller is to assume ownership of all used source materials 

 removed from a facility. 



3/ For an average shipment of 1,000 miles. 



4/ Facility engineering and design costs are assumed to have been spread over several 

 units, and therefore are not considered to be a cost item. 



Source: Same as for table 5» 



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