"...this time around, the industry is aiming to build new plants for $1,500 to $2,000 per kilowatt of capacity, compared with a peak, inflation-adjusted cost of about $4,000 in the 1970s.
ENERGY ACT GOODIES.
Trouble is, the cheapest plants built recently, all outside the U.S., have cost more than $2,000 per kilowatt. And the advanced designs now on U.S. drawing boards have never been built here. "A first-of-its-kind facility always costs more," says John Kennedy, a director at Standard &Poor's. "Nukes ought to be part of the [energy] mix," says Southern CEO David Ratcliffe, but nobody wants to be first to build. "Everyone would actually like to be No. 10," he says..."
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