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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by tobias3 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:41PM (#32017003)
RBMK-1000 is actually still in use in Russia at three locations (they obviously fixed the bug that lead to the disaster, so it won't repeat 1:1...).

That also points at one issue. All the now >50 year old reactors should have been replaced with newer versions at some point. Just think about what kind of electronics there is in those things. This didn't happen anywhere. Not in Germany and not in France.

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Re:Nuclear turn green as EU parliament approves new taxonomy by cogman10 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:54PM (#32017183)
> All the now >50 year old reactors should have been replaced with newer versions at some point.

Seems like an issue with how humans think in general. "It's not an issue now, so why worry about it?"

These sorts of creeping disasters never seem to be addressed by any society in a timely fashion.

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