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• Scaaling nuclear power for villages, apartment buildings, shopping malls, factories, and ships

  One of the myths that is carefully taught to power plant engineers during their required course in engineering economics is that there is a mathematical method for computing the cost of a power from a power plant. Using that methodical approach, a big part of the equation - which I never committed to memory - is a factor for the "economy of scale". Using that factor, the example problems... Posted Dec 23 2007, 06:28 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Nuclear Technology, scale nuclear power