How much did Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant cost to build?
Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II is the replacement plant at Sosnovy Bor near Saint Petersburg, whose Unit 1 began construction on 25 October 2008 and was connected to the grid on 9 March 2018, with Unit 2 in commercial operation on 22 March 2021. English Wikipedia says the cost of the project was almost 70 billion Russian roubles, about 3 billion US dollars at the time.
Published project estimate
RUB 70 billion
Approximately $2.82 billion
Cost basis: 2008
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Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Published project estimate2008
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