That chart relies somewhat on outliers, too. But OK, if you’re making a point about costs increasing after Three Mile Island, I agree: new regulations introduced during construction increased costs a lot.
I think those regulations were worthwhile, maybe you disagree, but either way, once the regulations are introduced, builders of later plants know about them and don’t have to make changes during construction. Once compliant plants are built, people know how to deal with them. The actual regulations were about things like redundant control wiring, not things that directly impacted costs nearly as much as changing designs in the middle of construction did.
I don’t care about cost increases during specific past periods where new (reasonable) regulations were introduced, I care about cost increases from then to now—and costs have continued to increase, in multiple countries.
That chart relies somewhat on outliers, too. But OK, if you’re making a point about costs increasing after Three Mile Island, I agree: new regulations introduced during construction increased costs a lot.
I think those regulations were worthwhile, maybe you disagree, but either way, once the regulations are introduced, builders of later plants know about them and don’t have to make changes during construction. Once compliant plants are built, people know how to deal with them. The actual regulations were about things like redundant control wiring, not things that directly impacted costs nearly as much as changing designs in the middle of construction did.
I don’t care about cost increases during specific past periods where new (reasonable) regulations were introduced, I care about cost increases from then to now—and costs have continued to increase, in multiple countries.