> The existing companies are pulling out all the stops to try and keep from being decommissioned for as long as possible since, from their perspective, that cap

> The existing companies are pulling out all the stops to try and keep from being decommissioned for as long as possible since, from their perspective, that capital investment is a sunk cost and the longer it runs the higher the profits will be. perhaps it is an unintended side effect as far as they're concerned, but i'd also hate to reach a point where we don't have a contingent of engineers/plant operators with experience running these plants. nuclear won't be any safer if we turn all the plants off for 40 years and then decide "oops, yeah turns out we don't have any workable plan besides fission" and have to figure out how to run everything again.