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Previous generation of nuclear reactors in France were built for less than 2 billion euros (constant euro) per GW (sorry it's in french, you can see the number
by bdauvergne 6y ago
Previous generation of nuclear reactors in France were built for less than 2 billion euros (constant euro) per GW (sorry it's in french, you can see the numbers here http://i-tese.cea.fr/_files/LettreItese18/ECLAIRAGES/REP.pdf http://i-tese.cea.fr/_files/LettreItese18/ECLAIRAGES/REP.pdf on page 10). There were 50 reactors of three types (900, 1300 then 1450 GW). If we had kept this technology instead of losing the know-how and developing a new program, we could certainly build 1500 GW for those 3T. Don't know if any other country ever achieved such economy scale on its civil nuclear program, maybe South-Korea as like France they have only one nuclear company, and even more reactors per sites of few different models.