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How much did Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station cost to build?

The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station is the shut-down single-unit pressurized water reactor plant of about 478 to 502 MW near Blair, Nebraska, owned by the Omaha Public Power District, which first went on-line on 9 August 1973 and was permanently shut down in October 2016. The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative lists its total construction cost as 920 million dollars in 2018 dollars, and Wikipedia gives 754.65 million in 2007 dollars.

Reported project cost

$920 million

Cost basis: 2018

Fort Calhoun power plant, located between U.S. Highway 75 and the Missouri River, between Blair and Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. View is from the southwest, from Highway 75.
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Reported project cost2018
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Timeline

  1. 9 August 1973

    Opened or launched

    POWER magazine

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