Inflation is going to make it cost a bit more to complete the Nucor Steel plant planned for Mason County, West Virginia The company announced the price tag will be about 400-million-dollars more than expected. That brings the new cost estimate to two-point-seven-billion dollars. The two-year construction project along Route-2 south of Point Pleasant will bring nearly two-thousand construction jobs. Eventually, the plant will employ around 800 full-time workers.