How much did Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station cost to build?
The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station was a single-unit, about 680 MW boiling-water reactor at Plymouth, Massachusetts, whose construction began on 26 August 1968, which began operating in 1972 and closed in 2019 after its owner announced in October 2015 that market conditions and rising costs made it uneconomic. Wikipedia's infobox gives its cost as USD 462.25 million in 2007 dollars, and the Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative restates the same build as USD 600 million in 2018 dollars.
Reported project cost
$462.25 million
Cost basis: 2007
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Reported project cost2007
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- PowerNuclear Decommissioning Collaborative
- 680 MW
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