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Yes but their safety could be improved, new containment system can be built etc. Governments should step up and change the incentives to keep the good plants in
by effie 6y ago
Yes but their safety could be improved, new containment system can be built etc. Governments should step up and change the incentives to keep the good plants in operation. Being unprofitable is not a good reason to decommission a nuclear plant.
> DAEC's operation helps avoid the emission of nearly 4 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, which is the equivalent of taking almost 800,000 cars off the road
- ThinkBeat 6y agoThere are a lot of advantages to designing a better nuclear plant to be built than to retrofit one that is designed wrong from the beginning
- Lammy 6y agoAre retrofits and new construction equally possible in today's regulatory and media environments?
- dundercoder 6y agoThe NRC and DOE levy so much regulation, I really can’t imagine how anyone can make a profit with any changes.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> Yes but their safety could be improved, new containment system can be built etc. > Being unprofitable is not a good reason to decommission a nuclear plant. Peak delusional.