Since the first wave of nuclear reactors in 1970 to the construction of Generation III+ reactors in Finland and France in 2005 and 2007 respectively, nuclear power seems to be doomed to a cost escalation curse. In this paper we reexamine this issue for the French nuclear power fleet. Using the construction costs from the Cour des Comptes report, that was publicly available in 2012, we found that previous studies overestimated the cost escalation. Although, it is undeniable that the scale-up ended up in more costly reactors, we found evidence of a learning curve within the same size and type of reactors. This result confirms that standardization is a good direction to look, in order to overcome the cost escalation curse.
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机译：自从1970年第一波核反应堆到分别于2005年和2007年在芬兰和法国建造第三代以上反应堆以来，核电似乎注定要遭受成本上涨的诅咒。在本文中，我们为法国核动力船队重新审查了这一问题。使用2012年公开发布的Cour des Comptes报告中的建筑成本，我们发现以前的研究高估了成本上涨。尽管不可否认的是，扩大规模最终导致了更昂贵的反应堆，但我们发现了在相同大小和类型的反应堆中学习曲线的证据。这个结果证实了标准化是一个很好的观察方向，以克服成本上升的诅咒。
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