http://www.questionsandanswersonline.com/how-much-do-you-think-an-average-nuclear-reactor-would-cost-to-build/ Blog about questions and answers Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:11:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.questionsandanswersonline.com/how-much-do-you-think-an-average-nuclear-reactor-would-cost-to-build/comment-page-1/#comment-59628 hud Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:02:26 +0000 http://www.questionsandanswersonline.com/how-much-do-you-think-an-average-nuclear-reactor-would-cost-to-build/#comment-59628 8.5 billion http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/993686.html 8.5 billion
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]]> http://www.questionsandanswersonline.com/how-much-do-you-think-an-average-nuclear-reactor-would-cost-to-build/comment-page-1/#comment-59627 charles s Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:15:56 +0000 http://www.questionsandanswersonline.com/how-much-do-you-think-an-average-nuclear-reactor-would-cost-to-build/#comment-59627 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. 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.

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