Publication - September 27, 2010
Over the five-decade-long history of building nuclear power plants, industry watchers assert that ‘there has consistently been a wide gap between the performance of existing nuclear plants and the performance forecast for new nuclear plants. These expectations have almost invariably proved overoptimistic.
The gap in expected performance is as wide as ever between current forecasts of the economic performance of the next generation of nuclear power plants and that of the existing plants...it does suggest that forecasts relying on major improvements in performance should be treated with some scepticism.
Nuclear Power: Operational Risks