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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 02:28 PM
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2. my uncle was a project manager at the cordova il nuke plant
he was told by senior management that the new byron il plant was going to be the last big plant they would build. they knew the future costs would be greater than the return. byron was built in the mid 70`s and cost 5 billion. they told him they wanted smaller units spread across the state but they knew it was politically impossible.

byron il plant was started in the mid 70`s and finished around 1980. the cost of the plant was around 5 billion. the projected cost of a similar plant is around 20 billion plus taxpayer funded insurance costs. at this time there is one company in the world that can forge a containment vessel large enough for large plants and that plant has at least a two year backlog. westinghouse was the last company in the usa that builds plants and they were sold to toshiba of japan.we do not have the capacity to make the guts of the plant. we would have order our stuff from overseas suppliers

if one was started today obama would be out of office by the time it was completed.
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