Quebec nuclear reactor shutdown will cost $1.8 billion

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Source: CBC

Quebec's only nuclear power plant will shut down on Dec. 28, Hydro-Québec announced Wednesday, but the process of dismantling it will take 50 years and cost $1.8 billion.

The official statement confirms what the new Parti Québécois government has been saying for weeks: that the province won't pay to refurbish the Gentilly-2 reactor and instead will have it decommissioned.

Hydro-Québec's most recent economic analysis, made public on Wednesday, recommends against spending the billions of dollars that would be required to rebuild the reactor to allow it to continue operating.

The Crown corporation says it now estimates the refurbishment would cost $4.3 billion, up from the $2 billion that the previous Liberal government had budgeted.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/10/03/montreal-gentilly-2-shutdown-cost-hydro-quebec.html

[leveymg]

1. But rebuilding the damn thing will cost $4.3 billion, and the old plant would still need to be torn

down, as will be the new one, eventually. With decommission costs running almost as much as building new ones, nuclear doesn't look like a bargain, and the construction and operating estimates often omit the high cost of decommissioning these things.

No thank you.

[on point]

2. Not to mention the eternity of costs to protect the planet against the spent fuel

They NEVER include the on going costs of dealing with the spent fuel, for which there is no good answer and which can stretch into THOUSANDS of years!!

Economic net net nuclear power is a loss!!

[sulphurdunn]

3. They have to pay to let it cool down

for 40 years before they can even begin taking it apart over the next 10 and they have a cost estimate of $1.8 billion?

[Civilization2]

4. just say no to nuke plants,.

the costs are pushed onto the 99% while the few run off with a sht load of cash for "developing" the plants,. it is a money pit and a terrible theft from the many for the enrichment of the few.

[rootProbiscus]

5. Whinging bastards

They have successfully decommissioned two nuclear plants already - Chernobyl and Fukushima
Only another 500 to go

[DavidL]

6. What is "whinging"?

There is a thing called "spell-check" on most computers.

Please use it!

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

7. Oi, Yank...

From dictionary.com:

whinge
? hwinj, winj
verb (used without object), whinged, whing·ing. British and Australian Informal .
to complain; whine.

[Xipe Totec]

8. Not a good start at making new friends. nt

[rhett o rick]

10. Is that what you have to add to the discussion? nm

[wordpix]

9. and each US plant is insured for a whopping (sarcasm) $350 million---US taxpayers pay the rest if

anything goes wrong.

NO to NUKES!