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When do you suggest nuclear reactors should be shut down? After they stop being functional? Seems risky. Is the timing unfortunate? Yes. But everything else is
by elric 4y ago
When do you suggest nuclear reactors should be shut down? After they stop being functional? Seems risky.
Is the timing unfortunate? Yes. But everything else is just exaggerated. This was a small reactor which was responsible for a tiny amount of production in a tiny country.
Should we replace it? Maybe. But then we should have started construction 20 years ago. Given that this didn't happen, the rest of the discussion is somewhat moot. We could probably start replacing it today, but not many nuclear power plants are being built in Europe, costs are insane, and timeframes are so long that no one is willing to invest.
There are (somewhat literally) crowd funded suppliers of renewable energy (cooperatives like Ecopower.be). Perhaps someone should start something similar for nukes.
- panick21_ 4y agoThis reactor could have continued to run for a long time. It should be should down only if continued running it is more expensive then a complete rebuild of a base load that can replace it (not just a wind farm, but long term storage as well). This is really a tragedy.
- emmelaich 4y ago5% of Belgium's power doesn't seem tiny to me.