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After the 2001 energy crisis, there was a re-examination of finishing 1300 MW WNP-1 in Richland,  which was 60% complete when abandoned when WPPS went bankrupt in the early 80's.  The plan was put back on the shelf due to a lack of interest by Seattle City Light and other utilities for purchasing such power, and the predicted price tag of $4 billion dollars to finish it:

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10/14/2001 Market unrest clouds WNP-1's future

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4/25/2002 WNP-1 future may be doomed

One may ask why a 60% complete plant would cost as much as a whole new 1630 MW plant being built in France or a GT-MHR. Seattle City Light should buy the WNP-1 site from Energy Northwest for a nominal price, maintain the site as an investment, and negotiate with a reactor supplier to build and maintain a power plant suitable for powering an attached hydrogen battery fuel plant with enough capacity to supply all of Seattle's fuel needs with any emmisions of greenhouse gases.