UK nuclear power plant will be the most expensive object on Earth

The proposed nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset, UK is estimated to cost $35 billion. The BBC compares the price tag to other big ticket items:

For that sum you could build a small forest of Burj Khalifas - the world's tallest building, in Dubai, cost a piffling 1bn ($1.5bn). You could also knock up more than 70 miles of particle accelerator. The 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider, built under the border between France and Switzerland to unlock the secrets of the universe, cost a mere 4bn ($5.8bn).

The most expensive bridge ever constructed is the eastern replacement span of the Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco, designed to withstand the strongest earthquake seismologists would expect within the next 1,500 years. That cost about 4.5bn ($6.5bn).