NYT - Japanese Government Says Decommissioning Fukushima Reactors Will Take 40 Years

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3. But what did they cost to build in the first place?

And what would the decommissioning have cost if there had been no accident?

http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/665644

[font face=Times, Serif][font size=5]$26B cost killed nuclear bid[/font]

2009/07/14 04:30:00
By Tyler Hamilton Energy and Technology Columnist

[font size=3]The Ontario government put its nuclear power plans on hold last month because the bid from Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., the only "compliant" one received, was more than three times higher than what the province expected to pay, the Star has learned.

Sources close to the bidding, one involved directly in one of the bids, said that adding two next-generation Candu reactors at Darlington generating station would have cost around $26 billion.

It means a single project would have wiped out the province's nuclear-power expansion budget for the next 20 years, leaving no money for at least two more multibillion-dollar refurbishment projects.

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The bid from France's Areva NP also blew past expectations, sources said. Areva's bid came in at $23.6 billion, with two 1,600-megawatt reactors costing $7.8 billion and the rest of the plant costing $15.8 billion. It works out to $7,375 per kilowatt, and was based on a similar cost estimate Areva had submitted for a plant proposed in Maryland.

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