US has spent $4.92 billion in nuclear power since it first came out. I was wondering how much it would cost to built a reactor since the US has about 104 operating reactors (currently)
How much do you think an average Nuclear Reactor would cost to build?
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– March 12, 2010
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Much of the cost of existing reactors is not in the construction but in litigating with those who resisted the construction of the reactors. The designs of the major corporations who can build a nuclear reactor are pretty much standardized within several designs and the marginal cost of a reactor, once the industry starts up again in the US will be much less than the cost of the last ones that were built: Like Diablo Canyon, Palo Verde, San Onofre.
8.5 billion
http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/993686.html