Costs of Nuclear Power Plant Construction: Theory and New Evidence
指出核电站建设成本研究中常用的“隔夜成本”指标违背资本理论，改用更准确的成本衡量后，发现日本核电站的规模经济效应不再显著。
Studies of the cost of construction of nuclear power plants rely upon a measure of called cost, that contradicts accepted capital theory. The studies report that construction cost per megawatt of capacity decreases as plant scale increases. We employ a more correct measure of cost and compare the results of this measure versus overnight cost for Japanese nuclear power plants. Using overnight the results give evidence of economies of scale in Japanese power plants, but when the correct measure of cost is substituted, the scale variable is not statistically significant.