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mheslep
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The problem is that the cost of financing one reactor can be more than the gross revenues of a power utility, thus too much concentrated risk in one pie. See e.g. Duke Energy - revenues ~$3.1B. If the Cherokee two reactor site they have proposed costs the same as the dual AP1000's proposed for Levy, Fla, that's $14B, 4x the annual revenue of the company.Morbius said:Xnn,
Yes - that's Al Gore's old saw. However, when you have large demands - then you can build large
plants. For example, the Chicago / Northern Illinois area serviced by Commonwealth Edison uses
about 7 reactors. These are the "XXXL" size and you still need 7 of them to provide the power for
Chicago and its suburbs.
So what's the problem?
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