Editing Energy development (section)

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Costs are likely to go up for currently operating and new nuclear power plants, due to increased requirements for on-site spent fuel management and elevated design basis threats.<ref name="Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011 xv">{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/studies/documents/nuclear-fuel-cycle/The_Nuclear_Fuel_Cycle-all.pdf |title=The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle |author=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |year=2011 |page=xv |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601120150/http://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/studies/documents/nuclear-fuel-cycle/The_Nuclear_Fuel_Cycle-all.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-01 }}</ref> While first of their kind designs, such as the EPRs under construction are behind schedule and over-budget, of the seven South Korean [[APR-1400]]s presently under construction worldwide, two are in S.Korea at the [[Hanul Nuclear Power Plant]] and four are at the largest nuclear station construction project in the world as of 2016, in the [[United Arab Emirates]] at the planned [[Barakah nuclear power plant]]. The first reactor, Barakah-1 is 85% completed and on schedule for grid-connection during 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-UAEs-fourth-power-reactor-under-construction-0209155.html|title=UAE's fourth power reactor under construction|website=www.world-nuclear-news.org|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916153535/http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-UAEs-fourth-power-reactor-under-construction-0209155.html|archive-date=16 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fananews.com/en/uae/307075/|title=The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation ( ENEC ) provided a project update on the status of the UAE peaceful nuclear energy program|website=www.fananews.com|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006125335/http://www.fananews.com/en/uae/307075/|archive-date=6 October 2016}}</ref> 
Two of the four [[European Pressurized Reactor|EPR]]s under construction (in [[Finland]] and France) are significantly behind schedule and substantially over cost.<ref name="Patel">{{cite news | url= https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-24/china-builds-french-designed-nuclear-reactor-for-40-less-areva-ceo-says.html | title= China Builds Nuclear Reactor for 40% Less Than Cost in France, Areva Says | first= Tara | last= Patel | author2= Francois de Beaupuy | date= 24 November 2010 | publisher= [[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]] | access-date= 2011-03-08 | url-status= live | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101128111033/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-24/china-builds-french-designed-nuclear-reactor-for-40-less-areva-ceo-says.html | archive-date= 28 November 2010 }}</ref>