decommissioning

Plenty of delays, overruns, and even decommissioning to make up for it support how poorly-managed this program is.

It's not going to be representative of the decommissioning costs of modern generation II or generation III reactors.

Has anyone seen a life cycle analysis of decommissioning a coal or nuclear plant or managing tailing ponds?

The decommissioning cost is estimated by NRC and plant operators before the plant becomes operational and is periodically revisited.

From the article Decommissioning work is estimated to cost $50 billion and will take years to complete.

And decommissioning costs don't look nearly so big compared to the several billon $ for construction.

PS: All fusion devices produce a lot a radiation and need extensive containment and decommissioning costs.

They estimated the lifetime of the farm they studied, and estimated the maintenance and decommissioning costs.

Isn't decommissioning nuclear power plants still basically a huge bill underwritten by the tax payer?

While nuclear pays for site safety, it is the tax payer that covers the decommissioning and future waste storage / processing.

The NRC estimates costs for decommissioning a nuclear power plant range from $280-$612 million.

It is a range of much-lower uncertainty decommissioning costs for several different plant.

If additional sources of energy can't be brought online fast enough, it would basically necessitate the decommissioning of the middle class -- so-called "power down." The end result would look not terribly unlike the first of the Hunger Games films, with a few high-tech enclaves and a vast population living in medieval squalor.

Yeah, I see from Wikipedia "In France, decommissioning of Brennilis Nuclear Power Plant, a fairly small 70 MW power plant, already cost €480 million (20x the estimate costs) and is still pending after 20 years." Plus it leaked into the lake nearby.