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This way of estimating the real total cost isn't realistic, in such a (military) context accounting is difficult. In France the supreme court of audit (Cour de
by natmaka 3y ago
This way of estimating the real total cost isn't realistic, in such a (military) context accounting is difficult. In France the supreme court of audit (Cour des comptes) simply dropped the ball on it and used ballpark figures.
The real total cost of exploitation of a marine (think: cooling) military (think: many hands available, and a quite specific way to manage dangerous equipment) reactor is also very difficult to establish.
- credit_guy 3y agoFair enough. And what were the ballpark figures?
- natmaka 3y agoThey dropped the ball on military investments (which were MASSIVE), see their report ( https://www.ccomptes.fr/en/documents/1134 https://www.ccomptes.fr/en/documents/1134 ), page 35: «Le champ d’analyse ne couvre pas les dépenses de recherche relevant du domaine militaire, ni celles se rattachant à la recherche fondamentale». Even the cost of civilian research (from the 50's to 2012) is very difficult to assess («les données recueillies ne sont pas toutes homogènes et leur fiabilité n’est pas totale.»). Ballpark figures (page 270): 288 billions euros (value: 2010) invested, 118 of them being directly production-related investments (maintenance is not accounted for), with severe methodological restrictions («Il est difficile aujourd’hui de 'reconstruire' l'histoire du financement»), tackled by using conventions inherited from the nuclear industry.