Are Older Nuclear Reactors Less Safe? Evidence from France

Romain Bizet (), Petyo Bonev () and François Lévêque ()

No 2216, Economics Working Paper Series from University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science

Abstract: This is the first paper to statistically evaluate the relationship between age of a nuclear power plant and nuclear safety. We use a novel dataset that contains over 13000 small incidents in the French fleet between 1997 and 2015. We find that after an initial period of increase, safety eventually decreases with age. This is consistent with the bathtub effect usually measured in the reliability literature.

Keywords: environmental policy; nuclear power; nuclear waste; NIMBY; crowding intrinsic motivation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D71 D72 Q53 Q58 R53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2022-11
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