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[โ€“] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes. They cost more than some cables. But we aren't talking about wiring a stereo.

A new nuclear unit (4 billion-ish) costs about as much as 2,000 miles of transmission-grade cable (about 2 million per mile). Considering that there's about 30 cables on a tower run, you're looking at around 65 miles' worth of cable for the cost of a nuclear unit.

And that's just the cost of the wire. No towers, no conduit, no substations, no land acquisition (aerial easement and underground are very different things), no labor.

[โ€“] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

A new nuclear unit (4 billion-ish)

In the USA the most recent two reactors (2 added to a plant that already had 2 existing) cost $34 billion just for the two new ones. source