> The latest nuclear plant in the US was the completion of the Vogtle plant in Georgia, which ran a staggering $22B over budget. Twenty Two Billion Dollars over

> The latest nuclear plant in the US was the completion of the Vogtle plant in Georgia, which ran a staggering $22B over budget. Twenty Two Billion Dollars over budget! And Unit 4 was (IIRC) 30% cheaper than Unit 3. Because with Unit 3 they had to learn everything about building a nuclear power plant from scratch (from a practical, steel-toed boots on the ground perspective). Now that there's (a) an actual supply chain (brought up from scratch), and (b) people with a workflow on how to build AP1000s, future units will decrease costs over time. During the 1990s and into the 2000s Japan was bringing up nuclear plants in 4-5 years like clockwork: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_reactors#Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea... Turns economies of scale work as well for 900MW power plants as for $9 widgets. The Decouple podcast has a four-part series on Vogtle and what they did wrong (and right): * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyouH0mkPJXHR0hKW_iLkIBCsu5D5xO2b https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyouH0mkPJXHR0hKW_iLk...