A reactor-level analysis of busbar costs for US nuclear plants, 1970-2005

By Jonathan Koomey, N. Hultman. 2007

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Interim monitoring of cost dynamics for publicly supported energy technologies (2009, background): “Koomey and Hultman (2007) have documented a more persistent form of this cost inflation effect for nuclear reactors.”
A comparative analysis of electricity generation costs from renewable, fossil fuel and nuclear sources in G20 countries for the period 2015-2030 (2018, methodology): “However, another source was used to estimate the high investment and overrun addition of 40% (Koomey and Hultman, 2007).”
Historical construction costs of global nuclear power reactors (2016, unknown): “For example, Koomey and Hultman (2007) showed that while construction costs ($/kW) of the least and most expensive nuclear reactors in the US differed by a factor of 12, the lowest and highest levelized cost of electricity ($/kWh) from these reactors only differed by a factor of 4.”
How predictable is technological progress (2015, unknown): “Examples include Lienhard (2006), Koh & Magee (2006, 2008), Bailey et al.”