Nuclear Power
NEW (January 2010): Cost Escalation in France's Nuclear Reactors: A Statistical Examination (pdf, 12 pp)
Komanoff's landmark 1981 book, Power Plant Cost Escalation: Nuclear and Coal Capital Costs, Regulation and Economics (large pdf, 12 MB). "Power Plant Cost Escalation" examined the upheaval in the economics of nuclear and coal electrical generation that occurred in the 1970s, and explored prospective further changes from the post-Three Mile Island vantage point. It investigated increases in nuclear and coal capital (construction) costs on three levels: empirical, engineering, and etiological (underlying causal). One chapter was published in the peer-reviewed journal, Nuclear Safety, and another in the Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association. Together, the dozen chapters encompass the 1970s-1980s debate over the economics -- and the future -- of nuclear power. We recommend you set your page size to 66% to best view this pdf edition of the complete 325-page Power Plant Cost Escalation. (Write to KEA if you would like to obtain an original hard copy.)
Executive Summary of 1992 Komanoff Energy Associates report for Greenpeace, "Fiscal Fission"
Complete 1992 KEA report for Greenpeace, "Fiscal Fission" (pdf)
Spreadsheet comparing federal subsidies for wind power and nuclear power.
Cover article in May 17, 1979 NY Review of Books, "Doing Without Nuclear Power" (Introduction only; access to Komanoff's complete 3,750-word article assessing nuclear power's prospects in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident requires subscription to the NYR electronic edition or one-time purchase)
