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How much did North Anna Nuclear Generating Station cost to build?

North Anna Nuclear Generating Station is the two-unit pressurized water reactor plant on Lake Anna near Mineral, Virginia, owned by Dominion Virginia Power (88.4 percent) and Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (11.6 percent) and operated by Dominion Energy, with construction begun on 19 February 1971 and units commissioned on 6 June 1978 and 14 December 1980. The Wikipedia infobox gives its cost as USD 3.861 billion in 2007 dollars, a restated figure of the Energy Information Administration kind, not the nominal 1970s construction spending, and no second source could be found.

Reported project cost

$3.861 billion

Cost basis: 2007

View of North Anna Nuclear Generating Station, Louisa County, Virginia. Retouched photo.
dougward from Devon, United StatesCC BY-SA 2.0

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