A reply to “Historical construction costs of global nuclear power reactors”

Energy Policy

Volumn 102, Issue , 2017, Pages 640-643

  Koomey, Jonathan ^a   Hultman, Nathan E ^b   Grubler, Arnulf ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning rates; Nuclear power; Technology costs

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR REACTORS;

CONSTRUCTION COSTS; DATA SET; DEMONSTRATION REACTOR; HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION; LEARNING RATES; NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS; TECHNOLOGY COSTS;

COSTS;

CONSTRUCTION; COST ANALYSIS; LEARNING; NUCLEAR POWER; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EID: 84963542637     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2016.03.052     Document Type: Article

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