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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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier BV
2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133049 |