Next is the cost of as much as $10 billion and five years to build each reactor, compared with about $1 billion for a natural gas-fired power plant.

即使突破了前面的重重难关，开发商还要花费将近百亿美金和五年的时间建造每一个反应堆。 相较之下，一个燃气发电厂的造价不过十亿而已。

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As a result of current low natural gas prices, natural gas-fired power plant operating costs have fallen so much that they are now displacing previously lower cost coal-fired power in the dispatch order of many electricity supply regions.

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This privately held firm may be small, but it managed to get a natural-gas-fired power plant completed in New York City in 2006.

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