Expert groups from Member States of the OECD, IAEA, and International Union of Producers and Distributors of Electrical Energy (UNIPEDE) have recently reviewed the projected levelized electricity generation cost of the baseload power generation options expected to be available in the medium term, using an agreed common economic methodology. Cost projections were obtained and evaluated for nuclear plants and fossil-fuel plants (mainly coal-fired) that could be commissioned in the mid- to late 1990s. Figs, graphs and tab