The expected building costs of a new nuclear reactor in Finland by France’s Areva have increased to 4.5 billion euros ($6.66 billion) from 3 billion and the group has to make new provisions, the Les Echos newspaper said on Thursday.
Areva, due to publish first half results on Friday, was not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Marcel Michelson)
– from www.reuters.com
Olkiluoto-3, the first nuclear plant ordered in Western Europe since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
The U.K.’s Sizewell-B plant, which took nearly 15 years from the application to build it to completion, opened in 1995 and cost about 2.5 billion pounds ($5.1 billion), up from a 1987 estimate of 1.7 billion pounds.
– from www.bloomberg.com