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...
Main Authors: | Eash-Gates, Philip (Author), Klemun, Magdalena M. (Author), Kavlak, Goksin (Author), McNerney, James M (Author), Buongiorno, Jacopo (Author), Trancik, Jessika (Author) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier BV,
2021-10-19T15:55:54Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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