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Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by Reason077 on Friday April 21, 2023 @06:45PM (#35661258)
Nuclear decommissioning costs in the UK are estimated to reach £260 billion[1]. It would be interesting to compare that to the inflation-adjusted construction costs for the plants. My suspicion is that it’s significantly higher.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/23/uk-nucle...

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Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by cyberax on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:14PM (#35661505)
This is mostly because of the Sellafield site, which was used for nuclear weapons production. It's also the site of the infamous Windscale nuclear reactor fire.

The US has the same problems with Hanford.

But I don't think this is fair to ascribe these costs to modern civilian nuclear power programs.

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