US Nuclear Reactors Cost 5 to 10 Times More Than China
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6G9F5)
A small modular nuclear reactor by NuScale is getting canceled because it would have produced 450 Megawatts and cost over $9 billion. The Vogtle Unit 3 and unit 4 are each 1,114 megawatt (MW) AP1000 nuclear reactors, and they will cost a combined $30 billion. The US was trying to shift to small modular nuclear ...