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> perfectly good fleet of carbon-free nuclear reactors The planning to decommission them started in 2011. It was a big hurdle to just extend that for the last
by V__ 3y ago
> perfectly good fleet of carbon-free nuclear reactors
The planning to decommission them started in 2011. It was a big hurdle to just extend that for the last few months. This also meant that long-term maintenance wasn't done. So perfectly good they are not, and keeping them online now would be extremely expensive.
Until there are off the shelf nuclear-plant solutions, (which don't take decades to get up and running) it just won't happen. I really hope a few of the current SMR startups become successful.