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France's are struggling to last 60. Extending their lives to 100 will not only raise maintenance costs even further it will raise the risk of catastrophe quite
by pydry 4y ago
France's are struggling to last 60.
Extending their lives to 100 will not only raise maintenance costs even further it will raise the risk of catastrophe quite significantly.
This would be a catastrophe for which e.g. American plants are insured only up to the level of 0.05% of 1 Fukushima level event.
- cyberax 4y agoYou know that material science has improved a lot since 1970-s when most of French nuclear reactors were designed, right? In particular, annealing had been developed fairly recently: https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featurerenewal-by-annealing-7171272/ https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featurerenewal-by-annea...