Historical construction costs of global nuclear power reactors

Energy Policy

Volumn 91, Issue , 2016, Pages 371-382

  Lovering, Jessica R ^a   Yip, Arthur ^a,b   Nordhaus, Ted ^a  

^a Breakthrough Institute   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experience curves; International comparison; Nuclear construction costs

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR ENERGY; PRESSURE TUBE REACTORS;

CONSTRUCTION COSTS; COST ESCALATION; EXPERIENCE CURVES; HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; NUCLEAR CONSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS; NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY;

COSTS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; COST ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; NUCLEAR POWER; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

CANADA; FRANCE; GERMANY; INDIA; JAPAN; SOUTH KOREA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958234448     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2016.01.011     Document Type: Article

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