Ontario Gets Re-Nuked
Apr. 18th, 2008 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerEven when the design is just a rebuild, not a from-scratch unit, they still get the pricing massively wrong. At what point does this bad joke end?
Ontario Electricity Consumers on Hook for Bruce Power Cost Overruns; Critics Say - CBC - 17 Apr 08
"Ontario electricity consumers will be the ones stuck with the bill for escalating costs to re-start a Bruce Power nuclear station, which the company now says will cost 24 per cent more than initially expected, critics warned Thursday. The nuclear electricity generator said Thursday it now estimates the cost of returning two idle reactor units to service at between $3.1 billion and $3.4 billion, up from an original 2005 cost projection of $2.75 billion."
Ontario Electricity Consumers on Hook for Bruce Power Cost Overruns; Critics Say - CBC - 17 Apr 08
"Ontario electricity consumers will be the ones stuck with the bill for escalating costs to re-start a Bruce Power nuclear station, which the company now says will cost 24 per cent more than initially expected, critics warned Thursday. The nuclear electricity generator said Thursday it now estimates the cost of returning two idle reactor units to service at between $3.1 billion and $3.4 billion, up from an original 2005 cost projection of $2.75 billion."
