The long read: Building Britain’s first new nuclear reactor since 1995 will cost twice as much as the 2012 Olympics – and by the time it is finished, nuclear power could be a thing of the past. How could the government strike such a bad deal?
  • brombek
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    2 years ago

    As with all high technology, if you stop practicing it for 20 years, people who would know how to build things retire, supply chains disappear and technology gap widens. The key is to keep building this things to keep supply chains and expertise going and to exploit the economy of scale. So hardly surprising this will cost so much. Also note that the article is from 2017.