Re:Electricity map: Mapping the climate impact of electricity
by teachrdan on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @12:44PM
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It looks like I was imprecise with my language. It looks like plants are licensed for 40 years. Extensions are for an additional 20 years. (!)
> there's nothing wrong with extending the lifespan if the regulators are okay with it.
Perhaps! Unless regulators make a mistake, or are pressured politically or by industry to extend licenses when they ought not be. I'm not sure I'd want to go into a hypothetical 2030s where the US had scores of nuclear power plants to decommission two decades after the end of their original lifespan.
> there's nothing wrong with extending the lifespan if the regulators are okay with it.
Perhaps! Unless regulators make a mistake, or are pressured politically or by industry to extend licenses when they ought not be. I'm not sure I'd want to go into a hypothetical 2030s where the US had scores of nuclear power plants to decommission two decades after the end of their original lifespan.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=228&t=21