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$10 billion. That's the price of a nuclear plant...
by wiz21c 6y ago
$10 billion. That's the price of a nuclear plant...
- walrus01 6y agoThe ROI calculations for a nuclear power plant are very different though, in terms of the dollars per gigawatt-hour that will be sold to the grid over many years, for the total expected life span of the power plant. Usually because they're built with some extreme form of government subsidy, or the fully loaded cost of a nuclear power plant is not taken into account in the $/GWh, such as eventual storage and disposal of nuclear waste at a government-run, government-funded facility.
- redis_mlc 6y agoNo, it doesn't include accident remediation or dismantling that plant. So start by finding a radioactive storage facility (oops!), then triple the cost. Chernobyl and Fukushima will cost about $1 trillion each ... for just the first 100 years.