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But all nuclear power plants get old - it's the only way they can make the huge up front costs work. And it seems every single technology proposed by nuclear a
by nl 3y ago
But all nuclear power plants get old - it's the only way they can make the huge up front costs work.
And it seems every single technology proposed by nuclear advocates is rapidly deprecated. Notably replacement designs are almost all completely experimental.
- eropple 3y agoA lot of why they're "experimental" is that large industrialized countries (especially but not exclusively the United States) decided to stop making them long enough for multiple generations of theoretical designs to pass by.
- zdragnar 3y agoYou say this like it is a bad thing. Even this old, mismanaged plant had zero attributable deaths after what was basically the worst case scenario.