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Re:First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to Begin Fu... by skrause on Monday October 26, 2015 @02:29PM (#10453362)
The German utilities just had to set aside around 35 billion dollars to decommission just about 10 nuclear power plants: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-16/why-german...

With that in mind I honestly don't believe the "few hundred million $".

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Re:First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to Begin Fu... by PhantomGremlin on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @08:13AM (#10457484)
I wonder where all the money will go? See my previous comment about a decommissioned plant, elsewhere in this topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457453

The reactor vessel is long gone. What remains on site is spent fuel, but there's nowhere to move that to. Cost was perhaps $0.23 billion but that's an approximate figure. Still, nowhere near the $3.5 billion per plant that German utilities have set aside.

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