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Right, but could we relicense a place whose license lapsed, if they didn't start physically decomissioning it?
by Ericson2314 5y ago
Right, but could we relicense a place whose license lapsed, if they didn't start physically decomissioning it?
- aerostable_slug 5y agoI suppose you could, but I'm pretty sure it would be financially ruinous. Relicensing is a multiyear process, and since it hasn't been started you'd have an enforced outage with both units for months to years. That would hemorrhage cash at an eye-watering rate. Even just having one unit down for an refueling outage is financially a big deal, which is why utilities bring in contract workers in droves to get as much work done as possible during the scheduled outage. If a nuke plant isn't running at 100% you're almost certainly going to lose money, which when combined with California's renewables policy is the biggest region PG&E is closing the plant.