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> they do not cost $50B to build, but somewhere in the ballpark of a few $B Which reactors are those? Hinkley Point C in the UK is £22.9 billion so far and is
by calcifer 5y ago
> they do not cost $50B to build, but somewhere in the ballpark of a few $B
Which reactors are those? Hinkley Point C in the UK is £22.9 billion so far and is years away from completion. Likewise, Olkiluoto Unit 3 in Finland is up to €11 billion so far and also years from completion.
- shakow 5y agoThose two examples are innovative sister projects (the EPRs) which are infamous in the nuclear community for having gone far overboard regarding both delays and over budget, and are much more representative of France fucking up its industrial know-how than anything else. Prices of more conventional designs (https://www.synapse-energy.com/sites/default/files/SynapsePaper.2008-07.0.Nuclear-Plant-Construction-Costs.A0022_0.pdf https://www.synapse-energy.com/sites/default/files/SynapsePa...) stand in the aforementioned mentioned ballpark.
- google234123 5y agoThe reactor we stopped building 30 years ago didn't cost near that.