Quote:
Originally Posted by kach22i
Pro Nuke power people should read about these cost overruns.
|
What is responsible for those cost overruns?
The original 2 reactors were projected to cost 2 billion total, but ended up costing close to 9 billion. I'm not sure how someone could be off by orders of magnitude. New regulations were put in place that caused construction costs to increase, but it's unknown to what extent that played on the cost overrun.
The final 2 reactors will cost 27 billion. I read that contractors had not built things to the engineering specs, which I wonder why those costs aren't borne by the contractors. If I specify construction in a particular way, and it isn't built that way, why am I stuck paying for the mistake? Many examples of that happening with this project.
It's not that nuclear costs too much to build, because the '70s proved it could be very affordable. We didn't get dumber in the ensuing years, so something unclear to me is causing nuclear projects to have increased by 50x what they used to be.
I'm reading this now...
COSTS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS — WHAT WENT WRONG?