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by philipkglass
3235 days ago
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You're referring to the Green Freedom concept: http://bioage.typepad.com/greencarcongress/docs/greenfreedom... Its authors badly underestimated how much new American nuclear reactors would cost. We performed economic analyses on a partially optimized baseline concept based on a single Gen III PWR to provide power for the process. The analyses estimated a capital cost of $5.0 billion for an 18,400 bbl/day synthetic-gasoline plant and $4.6 billion for a 5,000 tonne/day methanol plant. Nuclear power accounts for more than 50% of the total plant capital investment. If just over 50% of that cost is supposed to be nuclear plant, it would be $2.5 billion for a Gen III pressurized water reactor. ($2.9 billion now, accounting for a decade of inflation.) The just-abandoned VC Summer project was supposed to build two new Gen III PWRs in South Carolina. They pulled the plug because estimated cost of completion had spiraled up to $25 billion ($12.5 billion per reactor). https://neutronbytes.com/2017/07/31/utilities-pull-the-plug-... |
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