Re:U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change
by sgift on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:02AM
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> So if they had been diligently saving until 2009, then cleared out their financial buffer in 2010, they would quite reasonably be caught flat-footed in 2011?
If - sure. And if they hadn't lobbied the CDU/FDP for years to take it back it probably wouldn't have happened. Many ifs. But they didn't save up and they did lobby both parties.
> Unfortunately for them in 2011 Fukushima
So if they had been diligently saving until 2009, then cleared out their financial buffer in 2010, they would quite reasonably be caught flat-footed in 2011?
What is being described here is a problem, but it is not a technical problem and it is iffy to blame corporate wrongdoing. I've literally done rehab planning; these are short time frames and are clearly being driven by politics not technical planning.
Decommissioning isn't something that gets done for fun. Companies need time. It seems completely reasonable that they borrowed the money to decommissioning rather than having it on hand.