Capital costs, fuel, operation and maintenance (O&M) costs, and electricity prices play a key role in the economics of nuclear power plants. Often standardized reactor designs are required to be locally adapted, which often impacts the project plans and the supply chain. It then becomes...

Small and medium sized reactors, SMRs, (according to IAEA, ‘small’ refers to reactors with power less than 300MWe, and ‘medium’ with power less than 700MWe) are considered as an attractive option for investment in nuclear power plants. SMRs may benefit from flexibility of investment,...

Purpose: This paper empirically investigates the effect of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on the Indian financial market and firm betas, perhaps the first paper to do so. The results will be helpful for investors tracking betas during future the coronavirus waves....