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

2020/11/01 by Philip Eash-Gates, Magdalena M. Klemun, Goksin Kavlak +3 · 1 voice · 3 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · #Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies #Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials #Nuclear and radioactivity studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.joule.2020.10.001

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Citations

• What History Can Teach Us About the Future Costs of U.S. Nuclear Power
• Historical construction costs of global nuclear power reactors
• Cost overruns and financial risk in the construction of nuclear power reactors: A critical appraisal
• The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing
• The Role of Firm Low-Carbon Electricity Resources in Deep Decarbonization of Power Generation

Cited by

• China reins in the spiralling construction costs of nuclear power — what can other countries learn?
• Fission for funds: The financing of nuclear power plants
• Analysis of Stakeholder Involvement in Nuclear Power Plant Cost Overruns and Implications for Contract Structuring

Discussions

• Obviously redesign contributed, but on net the story remains incompetence: doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... -- when one digs into it one finds stories of 70% of welds failing basic QC. Even in France, where nu [bsky, 0 points, 2 comments]