Cooper 's 2011 report , '' Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Economics , '' says that past nuclear disasters , such as the 1979 Three Mile Island accident , have tended to " greatly raise regulatory barriers and have also severely multiplied the cost of reactor construction " . After Three Mile Island , the report said , the cost of nuclear power plant construction doubled in most cases and trebled or quadrupled in some rare circumstances . He says that presently we are witnessing not a nuclear renaissance but a collapse in expectations for new nuclear reactor construction
Three Mile Island accident
Three Mile Island accident
Mark Cooper (academic)