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Title page 102
Relation Power and the Pacific Northwest
Date 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09
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Description increased to 20 percent. But even these increases are relatively small compared to the escalation in the cost of building new generation. When the Hydro-Thermal Power Program was conceived in the late 1960's, the estimated cost of an optimum-sized nuclear powerplant was about $230 million. A similar plant being designed in 1976 for completion in the mid-1980's will probably cost five times that amount. These factors, together with high interest rates and the need for augmenting low-cost hydro...
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