Sources of Cost Overrun in Nuclear Power Plant Construction Call for a New Approach to Engineering Design

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Nuclear plant costs in the US have repeatedly exceeded projections. Here, we use data covering 5 decades and bottom-up cost modeling to identify the mechanisms behind this divergence. We observe that nth-of-a-kind plants have been more, not less, expensive than first-of-a-kind p...

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Main Authors: Eash-Gates, Philip, Klemun, Magdalena M., Kavlak, Goksin, McNerney, James M, Buongiorno, Jacopo, Trancik, Jessika
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133049