Most of the studies focusing at power plant construction cost, power plant O&M cost, and power plant decommissioning cost particularly, a primary objective is to consider all major power plant costs. Usually, minuscule costs and sometimes major cost factors are also not the issue of discussion....

These words were spoken by Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, following his peoples' victory over the army of the United States at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. In the struggle to protect the Lakota lands against colonial expansion, Sitting Bull recognized that the gravest danger...