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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by pjscott on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:48PM (#29657424)
> Wasn't it the new Finnish nuclear plant that cost 11 billion Euros?

Olkiluoto unit 3 is a pretty extreme outlier in construction costs. The same amount of power generation capacity from CPR1000 plants (widely used in China today) would cost closer to 2.5 billion Euros, and construction times are about 5 years.

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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by locallost on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:47AM (#29659946)
Is Vogtle in Georgia also an outlier?
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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by pjscott on Thursday December 23, 2021 @12:39PM (#29664171)
Yes, and so is the new Flamanville reactor. It's funny: out of the fifty or so commercial nuclear reactors that came online in the past decade, for some reason those still-under-construction debacles are the only ones most people have heard about.
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