It is a common approach in what nuclear engineers call "first of a kind" projects.
"We believe that steps have been taken to mitigate the environmental effects of this one-of-a-kind project".
As a first-of-a-kind project, the Vogtle 3 and 4 reactors have been promised substantial federal aid, including a loan guarantee.
Prior to Stanford, Baskaran led a first-of-its-kind project at the United Nations, connecting about 200,000 smallholder farmers with private markets.
A one-of-a-kind project is seeking to reveal how Egypt's pharaohs engineered the Nile landscape on a breathtaking scale, turning their capital, Thebes, into an ancient Venice.
But now Google is going its own way, in a first-of-its-kind project connecting the United States to Chile, home to the company's largest data center in Latin America.
NewVistas is the name of an unusual, indeed, one-of-a-kind project led by a Mormon businessman named David Hall to build new, master-planned towns from scratch – inspired by notes written by Joseph Smith himself in 1833.
On the other hand, on a one-of-a-kind project, he observed, "I could have the hand tools out of the box and have the thing done by the time I could set that machine up".
Four years ago a British producer, Anthony Geffen, announced what sounded like an enormously ambitious and one-of-a-kind project: He said he would use the breakthroughs in computer and digital technology to recreate the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt and China, bringing viewers the experience of walking through the Parthenon or riding a chariot at the Roman Circus.
