Just add the seven more units at Palo Verde that were authorized in the original license but never built because of Three Mile Island.
Just add the seven more units at Palo Verde that were authorized in the original license but never built because of Three Mile Island.
Pinnacle West will never fully build out Palo Verde. Never. You can read their resource plan going up to 2050, it does not include any new nuke generation.
It would cost nearly $ 3 billion per unit to build out Palo Verde. But the real limiting factor is lack of water for the massive cooling towers. Pinnacle West has tried to purchase reclaimed sewer water from Phoenix and the surrounding cities, but the cities won’ t sell their reclaimed water rights.
Also, PV was supposed to have five units, not ten. They built the first three and then gave up because of massive public anti-nuke hysteria.
I worked as a pipefitter welder on plant 2 back in 1980-81. Stayed at the man camp that Bechtel had constructed for the workers.
What money my friends and I didn’t send home to our families we blew on cheap beer and whiskey at Mr. Lucky’s. 21 year old free American male.