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...plant, which was nearly completed and had cost $3.7 billion. Reason: the NRC said it had "no confidence" in the quality-control procedures for some of the construction. Three days later, Public Service Co. of Indiana announced that it was canceling all further work on its 2,260-megawatt (MW) Marble Hill plant, half completed at a cost of some $2.5 billion. The loss has put a severe strain on the company's finances. The utility said last week that it would eliminate 100 jobs over the next month. In addition, 573 of the utility's remaining 4,000 workers...
...third blow fell when Cincinnati Gas & Electric and two partner companies announced that they were halting further nuclear construction on their long-troubled William H. Zimmer plant at Moscow, Ohio. They plan to convert the 810-MW facility, 97% finished at a cost of $1.7 billion, into a coal-burning installation. A fourth shock to the gasping industry came when a Pennsylvania public utilities commission led overextended Philadelphia Electric to halt construction for 18 months on one of its two Limerick reactors, where $3 billion has already been spent...
...industry started off small: in 1957 the Government beached a submarine reactor at Shippingport, Pa., and converted it into a power station with an output of 60 MW. The earliest American nuclear facilities were built by private companies, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, as loss leaders to convince utilities that atomic power was the future. They needed little convincing. By the end of 1967 the U.S. had 28 times as much nuclear capacity on order as it did in operation. The capacity of plants under construction increased from 300 MW in 1962 to 700 MW...
...Palo Verde complex, three 1,270-MW units 50 miles west of Phoenix. It is looked upon as a success by current nuclear industry standards because the expected final cost of some $6 billion is only about double the original estimate of $2.8 billion. A study released in January by the Energy Information Administration, a division of the Department of Energy, showed that 36 of the 47 nuclear plants surveyed cost at least twice as much as initially projected, while 13 of them were four times higher. Among the most expensive of these nuclear white elephants...
...wide variety of foreign projects in India. The Gandhi government recently obtained $680 million in loans on the Eurocurrency market to build an alumina plant southwest of Calcutta. France's Aluminium Pechiney will be constructing the factory. New Delhi also plans to build eight 1,000-MW electric-generating stations at a cost of nearly $1 billion each. The first of these will be built by a British consortium headed by Northern Engineering Industries of London...