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Satanic nukes? Finnish plant's cost overruns to $6.66 billion

Posted on September 19, 2008

Reuters reports the news or perhaps I should call it the Revelation:The expected building costs of a new nuclear reactor in Finland by France's Areva have increased to 4.5 billion euros ($6.66 billion) from 3 billion.Last year Bloomberg had a long article on the troubles plaguing Finland's Olkiluoto-3, the first nuclear plant ordered in Western Europe since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. By 2007, the plant had been delayed two years thanks to flawed welds for the reactor's steel liner, unusable water-coolant pipes and suspect concrete in the foundation. It was also more than 2...

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europe , finland , france