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The cost will vary significantly from plant to plant - this range is likely due to plant-to-plant variation - not uncertainty in the cost for any single plant.
by rwcarlsen 11y ago
The cost will vary significantly from plant to plant - this range is likely due to plant-to-plant variation - not uncertainty in the cost for any single plant. Do you have a citation/reference for that?
- andy_ppp 11y agoYeah, sure, it's linked above which is why I didn't reference it: http://www.nrc.gov/waste/decommissioning/finan-assur.html http://www.nrc.gov/waste/decommissioning/finan-assur.html Cost does seem quite high right?
- mikeash 11y agoSince it costs several billion to build a plant, that decommissioning cost is somewhere around 10-20% of the construction cost, which doesn't seem too bad.
- rwcarlsen 11y agoLike I mentioned above - that cost is not uncertainty in single plant decommissioning cost. It is a range of much-lower uncertainty decommissioning costs for several different plant. The decommissioning cost is estimated by NRC and plant operators before the plant becomes operational and is periodically revisited. And decommissioning costs don't look nearly so big compared to the several billon $ for construction.