How much did Dresden Generating Station cost to build?
The Dresden Generating Station is the nuclear plant of Constellation (formerly Commonwealth Edison) near Morris, Illinois, the first privately financed US commercial nuclear plant, with Unit 1 (192 MW, 1960 to 1978) and the two boiling water reactors Units 2 and 3 that entered commercial operation on 9 June 1970 and 16 November 1971. English Wikipedia, citing the dataset of Lovering, Yip and Nordhaus (2016), gives the costs of the units in 2010 dollars as 423 million for Unit 1, 856 million for Unit 2 and 828 million for Unit 3, 2,107 million in total.
Reported project cost
$2.107 billion
Cost basis: 2010
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