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vooffle t1_iuckzp0 wrote

Reply to comment by xaina222 in Poland chooses US to build its first nuclear power plant by Vegeta9001

France built Olkiluoto 3 in Finland. It's 13 years overdue and comically over budget.

Delays of Olkiluoto 3 have significantly slowed down nuclear energy development across Europe.

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Fenris_uy t1_iud0xpn wrote

Because Westinghouse always finish on time, right?

Vogtle is behind schedule and is projected to cost over $30B

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Feanorer t1_iud38qs wrote

I worked at vogtle 3 and 4 for eight years. You ain’t kidding we just did fuel load for 3

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vooffle t1_iud89tf wrote

Just went to check the list of most expensive buildings and saw Vogtle overtake Olkiluoto. That said, Areva has their hand in Hinckley and Flamanville as well, both also delayed and surpassing Olkiluoto.

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hikingmike t1_iudrs1t wrote

Interesting, I just did some wiki reading - “This last report blames the latest increase of costs on the contractor not completing work as scheduled. Another complicating factor in the construction process is the bankruptcy of Westinghouse in 2017.[13] In 2018 costs were estimated to be about $25 billion.[3] By 2021 they were estimated to be over $28.5 billion.[14] Upon completion of Units 3 and 4 in 2023, Vogtle will become the largest nuclear power station in the United States.”

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vengefulspirit99 t1_iud9h6e wrote

Westinghouse literally went bankrupt building these ap1000s for a project going overbudget. They were bought out by Brookfield in 2018 after their chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2017.

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Teantis t1_iudvsvf wrote

Westinghouse basically helped the Marcos family steal a fucktin of money building a 'nuclear power plant' in the Philippines in the 80s that never ever came close to being operational but still cost a fucktin if money.

From an academic article in 1994 ten years after the plant was rsted as unsafe without ever operating:

> The construction of the Philippine's first nuclear power plant by Westinghouse has come to symbolize the corruption and cronyism of the Marcos' years. The plant has created so much controversy that it has yet to operate, in a country that desperately needs electrical power.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25072530

Edit: fuckton but apparently autocorrect likes fucktin

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HannsGruber t1_iudivkh wrote

I bought a Westinghouse inverter generator on Amazon and as I sit here in the desert, smelling like gas having filled it for the 5th time in 30 hours...

Fuck.

My Firman I left at home would run for 16 hours on a tank but it was loud af

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Gtp4life t1_iuf0pxn wrote

But is it less efficient or does it just have a smaller tank? My friend’s F150 can go like 100mi further on a tank than my fusion. It also has almost double the tank size.

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greenmachine15517 t1_iudsuj5 wrote

Don’t forget about Flamanville 3, I think that one is more than a decade overdue.

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