Advice across the board is that nuclear power plants take a really long time and cost a lot of money. They almost always go far over time and budget. And they’re expensive to operate. Why is that so?
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It’s not that nuclear power plants themselves are so expensive to build and operate, it’s the bureaucracy and politics involved in any major project in the modern era.
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco cost $660 million in today’s dollars. 11 people died during its construction.
The Bay Bridge retrofit in San Francisco cost $8.5 billion in today’s dollars. No one died during its construction, but the retrofit turned out to be a complete joke. Turns out there are cracks in the foundation, impossible to get rid of. A big earthquake will completely demolish it.
Just the way things are now.
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