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posted by glennmcc Homepage E-mail, North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 15.03.2022, 23:03

> > You are perfectly right, but it's a hopeless case talking to people that
> > are blinded by ideology. And in the German case, it's even worse...
>
> Well there is news about a new nuclear power plant in Finland: It started
> producing electricity this year and the bill was 11 000 000 000 Euro while
> original plan was to finish it in 2010 for 3 000 000 000 Euro.
>
> Imagine all the gigawatts the Finns could have installed for that price
> without having to wait an extra 12 years.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant
>
> Or think about Hinkley Point C, which only got built at all because the UK
> government promised to pay far more than the market price for any
> electricity sold by them:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_station
>
> "the expected operational start date is June 2026 with a build cost of
> £22–23 billion"
>
> People really have to be blinded by ideology to still build those things.
> Probably the same people who still buy CRT monitors because of the more
> warm and fuzzy image quality ;-)
Took an extra 12yrs to complete and cost jumped from 3B to 11B ???

Hmmm.... sounds just like a US government project. ;-)

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