WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building
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🗓️ 25 April 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
What is the most expensive “object” ever built? There are plans in the UK to build a brand new nuclear power station called Hinckley Point. The environmental charity Greenpeace have claimed it is set to be the most expensive object on Earth. But could it really cost more to build than the Great Pyramid of Giza? We take a look at some of the most costly building projects on the planet.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Tim here. |
| 0:01.0 | This is the shorter World Service Edition of More or Less, |
| 0:04.4 | first broadcast on Friday, the 22nd of April. |
| 0:08.6 | If you are a loyal listener to both of our podcasts, |
| 0:11.2 | you will have heard this story about the expense |
| 0:13.4 | of the Hinckley Point Reactor before. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello, and welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:22.6 | we're your weekly guide to the numbers in the news |
| 0:25.0 | and in life, and I'm Tim Halford. |
| 0:30.5 | This March, Greenpeace launched an online petition |
| 0:33.8 | against plans to build the first new nuclear power station |
| 0:37.1 | in the UK for 30 years at Hinckley Point. |
| 0:40.9 | Greenpeace claims that best guesses say |
| 0:43.3 | the station could cost more than 24 billion pounds |
| 0:47.2 | and that Hinckley C is set to be the most expensive object |
| 0:51.6 | on earth. |
| 0:53.2 | Greenpeace aren't the first to make such claims. |
| 0:55.3 | For example, an article in the Spectator magazine |
| 0:57.8 | said pretty much the same thing late in 2014. |
| 1:01.7 | Loyal listener Geoffrey Brook asked us to look into these claims. |
| 1:05.9 | The first thing to point out is that the figure of 24 billion pounds |
| 1:09.2 | includes an estimate for interest costs. |
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