Delays, Cost Overruns, and Claims Mitigation for U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Construction: Should Outage Scope Management Principles be Applied?

Delays, Cost Overruns, and Claims Mitigation for U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Construction: Should Outage Scope Management Principles be Applied?

“Building it correctly, and safely, is more important than building it quickly” – Georgia Power’s spokesman Jacob Hawkins, in February 2015, addressing a three-year delay and $1 billion in cost overruns in the construction of the first two AP1000 reactors in the United States, the first U.S. nuclear construction in three decades. Safety, not speed, is the usual nuclear construction mantra (and with good reason). Yet the situation on the ground is far more complex than is acknowledged by a simple opposition of safety versus speed. Emergent scope changes, not safety, may have been the driving factor behind most of the delays that have plagued the construction of Georgia Power’s Vogtle nuclear power plant.

Delays, Cost Overruns, and Claims Mitigation for U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Construction: Should Outage Scope Management Principles be Applied?

“Building it correctly, and safely, is more important than building it quickly” – Georgia Power’s spokesman Jacob Hawkins, in February 2015, addressing a three-year delay and $1 billion in cost overruns in the construction of the first two AP1000 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