cost-overruns

OLKILUOTO, Finland—Areva SA's state-of-the-art nuclear reactor may not be connected to the electricity grid until 2014, its Finnish utility client said Tuesday, suggesting yet another delay to a troubled project that has suffered from cost-overruns and delays.

Areva High-Tech Reactor Hits New Snag Max Colchester 2011

The nuclear industry has a poor record of cost-overruns, once tracked in a study by Paul Brown, a visiting fellow at Cambridge university, and published under the title Voodoo Economics.

City presses Centrica to cancel plans for building nuclear power plants 2011

Half of that will never be spent and the other half will be on cost-overruns for failed nuke plants.

Matthew Yglesias » A Stark Reminder 2009

Christie, a Republican getting national attention for his budget-cutting ways, canceled the ARC project Oct. 27 because he said the state would be on the hook for nearly all cost-overruns, which his administration estimated at up to $5 billion on top of the $8.7 billion original price tag.

Christie Now Taking Credit For New Tunnel Proposal AP 2011

Even before the Fukushima crisis, many nuclear-reactor projects around the world were stalled or mired in cost-overruns.

Siemens Rethinks Nuclear Ambitions Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011

Areva has also come under criticism for cost-overruns of its third-generation reactor after project delays in Finland.

At Areva, New CEO Confronts a Delicate Job Max Colchester 2011

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he and Clinton raised a recent letter by key U.S. Senators suggesting the base deal be re-examined because of delays and cost-overruns.

US, Japan Agree to Drop Base Relocation Deadline 2011

Make recommendations that ensure a "completely new, cutting edge" technology HAS to be developed; starve other projects of cost-overrun funds while creating yet more cost-overruns; and then, when its to late to change a bum direction without another huge influx of funds and personnel, cancel the entire project, lay people off ...

Social Networking Tools at NASA - NASA Watch 2009

The CityTime project has suffered from massive cost-overruns since its inception in the 1990s.

CityTime Project Awash in 'Fraud' Michael Howard Saul 2011

Christie, a Republican getting national attention for his budget-cutting ways, canceled the ARC project Oct. 27 because he said the state would be on the hook for nearly all cost-overruns, which his administration estimated at up to $5 billion on top of the $8.7 billion original price tag.

Christie Now Taking Credit For New Tunnel Proposal AP 2011