Technology

Kind of looks like de_nuke...

Currently, the owners are projected to pay $31 billion in capital and financing costs, Associated Press calculations show. Japan’s Toshiba Corp., which then owned Westinghouse, paid $3.7 billion to the Vogtle owners to walk away from a guarantee to build the reactors at a fixed price after overruns forced electric industry pioneer Westinghouse into bankruptcy in 2017. Add that to Vogtle’s price and the total nears $35 billion.

Does this seem strange to include the 3.7 billion in here? I guess when you're used to costs meaning what it cost the purchaser of said product or service it seems weird. Like, if I was the group paying for this I might even think to reduce the reported cost by 3.7 billion.

That's copied from the AP news article the post's nbcnews article links to. Similar statement in the nbcnews one, but....they don't let you highlight any text? Lame.

YAY

$35 Billion dollars. That could have been used to place solar arrays and batteries on approximately 1.5 million houses. If they did that, they wouldn't need all the reactors at all. With investments in promising storage innovations, it makes more and more sense to decentralize and give power to the people. The boys at the top don't like that idea though. They want to keep you under their thumb.