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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by daneel_w on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @08:57AM (#41367022)
Which as with everything else in construction these days ultimately ends up taking twice as long and costing thrice the initial estimate. Also, this is the cost for a bore hole. The cost for something with enough diameter to house a reactor will be some orders of magnitude higher.
Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by martijnarts on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @09:39AM (#41367406)
The article mentions 76 cm width for the reactor they're designing, and oil wells can be up to a meter wide[0], so that price estimate would probably be similar then.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well#Drilling