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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Nuclear power is this dangerous because the Japanese reactors were built in the early days of atomic energy and should have been decommissioned 40 years ago. Modern technology is significantly safer and has many more fail-safes.
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It will take decades and many billions of dollars to decommission a plant. During that time, the plant will not generate electricity but will turn into a bottomless, radioactive money pit. While smaller reactors have been decommissioned, no one has yet fully decommissioned a large commercial reactor. The strategy has been to renew the licenses when they expire. The easy way out. For a time. And even after reactors are decommissioned, they remain in the landscape as contaminated concrete hulks. Nuclear power is expensive even if only the first part of its lifecycle—construction and power generation—are included. No power company can afford at current electricity rates to decommission its reactors. So the plan is to hand these expenses to the next generation.
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