COVID-19 Adds Six-Month Delay to $30.8B UK Nuclear Plant | 2021-01-28 | Engineering News-Record

COVID-19 Adds Six-Month Delay to $30.8B UK Nuclear Plant | 2021-01-28 | Engineering News-Record: COVID-19 impacts and restrictions are expected to delay the U.K.’s $30.8 billion Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant project by six months and add another $680 million to the most recent cost estimate. Since work started on the twin-unit, 3,200-MW plant in 2016, the cost hike is now nearly 28%. “This is the first time we have adjusted our schedule since the project commenced construction,” Stuart Crooks, managing director of project owner-developer Hinkley Point C Ltd., said in a video broadcast. The company is led . . .