Patriot76 
FL,
I always fell asleep in my university economics course...don't know how I passed it! It was one of those arts filler courses that they made engineering students take to become "well rounded". meh.
All I did was do a quick Google of "annual volume of steel produced in the US" or something like that tp find the annual tonnages. Huge numbers! Patriot had mentioned what he had been told of the tonnage his plant should top out at. Not sure if it was in this thread or a previous one.
The majority of the scrap will be ferrous, followed by copper, most likely. I don't know if these generating stations used much stainless steel in them, especially in the very old ones.
Scrap is a world-wide commodity, so the suppliers are price takers, not price setters. This is because the commodity is so available, if you try to set your price the world will just flow around you if it is too high. So the low-cost producer always wins.
So you can kinda see what Partriot is up against: He has an objective of getting the plant torn down to just certain buildings left behind and gutted of equipment, probably with no extra money spent by his client company to achieve it. Or even a target of having XX$ left over after the scrapping work is over and everyone has been paid.
So he has to maximize his returns and minimize the work he has to get done with his own crew to realize this.
It isn't an easy job and he has to be a jack of all trades to pull it off. I've done it a few times with smaller plants and it can be a lot of stress-filled fun.
I tip my hat to him (and his boss, who spotted him on this forum!) and wish him all the success in the world.
Jon.
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